@PolyWolf@social.treehouse.systems
Post #950121
2026-04-01 17:53 UTC
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@PolyWolf/116325652026222556
booted into Arch Installer USB, drives showed up + mounted just fine, no issues found besides some missing EFI variables, rebooted into firmware interface and yep sure enough it's back working now. phew!
in some ways this is more scary tho, means it really is my BIOS crapping out, will look to purchase a new computer once I land a new job yep
Replies (2)
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@dgelessus@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 21:21
@PolyWolf yeowch, that's an odd one. After seeing your first post, I was idly wondering if the firmware could poop itself in a way that it spontaneously forgets your boot entries, and I guess the answer is yes? Or maybe the EEPROM/flash chip for the UEFI variables is failing? Either way, not a cool situation
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@jcolag@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 21:48
@PolyWolf Don't count me as anything like an expert, here, but I've seen enough people talking about implausible behavior and tracing it to bad bits on the RAM recently to suggest it. It's a slog to test, but grub apparently has syntax to skip bad stretches.