I am kinda saddened that it’s such a mundane achievement but I’m also baffled because I didn’t even go out of my way to get this one I just played normally

Thing is every time I read about Nix I get a bit excited about it and I just read smth about it before posting this. Tho I do have bad experience with breaking a franken debian install once way back when :D
I’ll obvs do research and maybe some distro hopping before deciding on the next thing, but imma chill for a while now. Specially cause I slept kinda bad because my brain kept trying to fix the distro in bed ><
That suicide did a number on me

Thanks but I’m not gonna try that out now. Just finished backing everything up and am kinda burnt out now trying to fix this issue. Honestly I’d rather just to a full reinstall.

Update: I’m giving up. I tried every solution I could find. Tried the LTS kernel, fucking around with dracut options. I don’t know what the issue is or how to fix it.

I’ll be backing up my shit now and will move back to windows until I can find the brain power necessary for a reinstall.

Don’t know yet if I’ll stick to EndeavourOS or try nix or something, EOS worked out of the box with my NVIDIA card.

I want to thank everyone for your support. I would not have guessed for this issue to be so deep that it couldn’t be fixed, it is what it is I guess.

Ehh I’ll just back up my stuff and pack my bags for now. A reinstall is just gonna be faster at this point.

1. all drives besides root are marked as nofail in my fstab, 2) I’ve already confirmed this issue happens way before the fstab file is ever read. The kernel can’t even find the drive that the fstab file is on.

thanks, I might try that tho I don’t have high hopes since grub doesn’t seem to be the issue. You never know tho

thanks but since my boot manager already doesn’t live on the same drive as windows, it can’t squash it anyway hehe

I did do that with a new cfg file then diff’d the current and newly generated cfg files and they were identical

Yeah I up upgraded the kernel, finished my song in windows, then Linux go boom.
Tried downgrading to 7.1.4 the previous version no luck, will try lts kernel tomorrow

Yes, I mount my NTFS drives in linux, and they’re all nofail already, it’s literally the root drive it can’t find which makes no sense.
No, I don’t mount my linux drive on windows, I am not insane :D
Just checked, fast startup is disabled

that’s the only thing I can say for certain: drive’s not failing…

I can see the drive’s contents from the grub shell. not touching secure boot hehe

I’m constantly doing this. rebooting, shutting the whole PC down for a min then starting it again. def not windows’ fault

well since endeavour is very close to arch I hope I’ll find some solutions in that realm. But yeah I’m thinking something must’ve gone awry with the kernel… hm I should downgrade that one too, only downgraded systemd but maybe 7.1.5 has some fuckery

@SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com downgraded systemd from 261.2 to 261.1, did not fix the issue sadly :/

hmm sad to see there’s no solution in that thread. tho its weird a reinstall didn’t fix the issue for you.

no drive encryption here, no bitlocker, no luks

all partitions have space left

yes windows sees the ssd. no I shut it down the normal way i.e. no hibernation.