I cannot get further than GRUB except to rescue mode, when I attempt to boot the main Fedora OS it gets stuck on searching for a disk indefinitely. Gets stuck on Job dev-disk-by\<many symbols>.device/start running (1h / no limit) in the console.

I have a Windows partition on same drive, it also doesn’t boot, it’s rescue command prompt (from where you are instructed to open notepad to rescue files) doesn’t “see” any disk but C: and X: (emerg boot).

I tried booting this machine with two live OS USBs: Fedora and SystemRescue. Neither of them list the SSD (or anything but the USB drive FS itself) in lsblk or the file manager.

Due to lack of storage mediums, I haven’t done a backup in a while. How can I rescue the files? Many passwords are also stuck there, in Firefox manager I wasn’t able to sync due to losing access to the 2FA email.

Edit: SOLVED! Needed to switch disk mode in BIOS/UEFI from RAID to AHCI. IDK how it got to RAID in the first place.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Yes, but some do things better than others. CachyOS is btrfs by default, and does btrfs better than most. Btrfs is a bit more complex than your vanilla ext4.

    Bazzite excels at gaming related things. Alpine at lightweight stuff, Nix at inmutability, etc…

    That is one of the defining characteristics of Linux.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Yes, but some do things better than others.

      Ehhhhhh, kinda. “better” is highly subjective. Distros are “bundles of software” and a philosophy about how things are installed / when they are installed / what their default settings are / etc.

      A lot of people, especially newbs and less technical folks, grossly misunderstand what those differences are and what they mean.

      CachyOS is btrfs by default, and does btrfs better than most.

      Bullshit. Not that it’s btrfs by default but that it does it “better” than anyone else is ridiculous. It uses the same kernel driver and user-land tools as my Pop_OS install which is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and which, believe it or not, is running btrfs just fine.

      Btrfs is a bit more complex than your vanilla ext4

      Kid - I remember when ext4 was released. Very exciting to have a journaling filesystem at the time…

      Bazzite excels at gaming related things. Alpine at lightweight stuff, Nix at inmutability, etc…

      “excels” at meaning “has steam installed by default” and “makes nvidia drivers easier to install” you mean.

      My Pop_OS laptop runs game just fine.

      All these distros with their various design goals and bundled packages are variations on a theme. Like different Lego sets that include parts from a common box. But when you use the “btrfs” block you use the same one everyone else does.

      And none of them will deal gracefully with a failing disk that the OS has been told not to ignore errors on.