Bro, I’m the only “bro” allowed in this forum. Else others will snicker at you behind your back.
I kill myself.
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I tried this I found in the forum
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux-zen
it didn't help.
Then I installed the LTS kernel as suggested above, via
sudo pacman -Syu linux-lts linux-lts-headers
and booting with the LTS kernel does not fix this issue either. Are there any other options that I could try? If not, maybe there is a way to salvage some of the docs and pictures on the hard drive? Everything else can be just reinstalled.
Kernel panics can sometimes be caused by hardware issues, so the whole “ZSTD-compressed data is corrupt” message could be a red herring. It could be just a shot in the dark, but this does seem to stand out to me:
Your BIOS hasn’t been updated in over ten years. I would look up the model and see if there is an update available. Like I said, maybe it’s a long shot but at this point it can’t hurt.
This is pretty easy actually, just boot to the live environment with your USB and mount the disk. Then you should be able to access the files and grab whatever you need. Probably even just mounting the disk in the GUI file manager is fine, or you can use the chroot tool you were using earlier if you’d like.
The easiest way I can think of would be to have two USB drives: one to boot to the live environment, and another to copy the files on to. Or open a web browser from the live environment and stick your files into a Dropbox account or something.
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@BluishHumility - Thank you for that suggestion! I checked and the motherboard BIOS currently installed is the newest one available even though it's from more than 10 years ago.
This other thing just occurred to me. When I run the
lsblk -f
command in Chroot, the boot partition shows 0% used out of 298.7M
==> Mounting (Garuda_Linux) [/dev/mapper/luks-728eca4c-c2b7-4415-8903-64fa4824923b]
--> mount: [/mnt]
--> mount: [/mnt/boot/efi]
[root@garuda-dr460nized-gaming /]# lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0
loop1
loop2
loop3
sda
|-sda1 298.7M 0% /boot/efi
|-sda2
| `-luks-728eca4c-c2b7-4415-8903-64fa4824923b 622.6G 32% /
`-sda3
sdb
|-sdb1
`-sdb2
sr0
zram0 [SWAP]
[root@garuda-dr460nized-gaming /]#
Is that strange or normal? It seems to indicate that there's nothing there.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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