Installed Bazzite KDE on a different SSD for dual boot and now I cant boot back into my windows11
How do I fix so I can boot back into my Windows11? I can currently only boot into Bazzite and i've checked my bios and the disk on bazzite and the other m2 disk with windows11 is gone now
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I didnt split my partition this is simply a fully empty second m2 drive that i dedicated to bazzite
Disk 1 - 2tb M2 Drive (Windows 11)
Disk 2 - 4tb SSHD drive (Storage)
Disk 3 - 512gb M2 Drive (Bazzite KDE)
when checking bios boot order all I see is 2 options, Fedora and Fedora (MP510) which is the 512gb M2 Drive 3
And when in Bazzite all I see is disk3 and Disk2
I don't even get a boot menu when starting my pc whether I want to start w11 or Bazzite
Can't even launch my bootable USB anymore
Anyone that can help?
My 2tb main NVMe drive can't be found in diskpart either with w11 recovery usb
It's like the installation bricked my damn M2 drive or something
Anyone that can help?
my M2 no longer shows up even here. What's going on?
Hey, Let's try taking out all of the drives first, then only put in the windows drive and see what happens.
We're just checking to see if your windows boot partition got wiped or not.
In my experience 20+ years I've never seen an installation of any kind brick a drive, so I wouldn't panic.
Unplugged the 512gb NVMe
the 2tb one is still in
Try to take out the windows nvme and re seat it.
Also did you have to make any bios changes when you did the bazzite install?
No only after, having to turn off secure boot
reseated
still not showing up
never saw that either, but saw coincidence when drives died almost at the same time, could be the case here.
The drive dying exactly when I try out linux for the first time?
Long shot, but would you have another computer with an m.2 slot? Or do you have a usb nvme drive sled?
i do not
anaconda don't do anything fancy on a level so low that it could damage drive
I tried swapping places of the nvmes and the 512gb one showed up on the other slot
im using linux for the 25 years and never saw that happening
like bricking hdd, ssd, nvme
via installation
Yeah worst i've ever done was kill the boot partition.
well it does not really brick anything, drive is still operable
I'ts not possible to brick a drive. But you are right it could be a coincidence.
I mean borked firmware update
other than that, i don't see a scenario
Me either. Check if you have warranty on that drive and get a replacement.
If you don't have warranty, you could try getting an nvme drive sled. They're fairly cheap and see if you can access it from that.
also, from my understanding you did not touch windows drive with linux installer, so yeah, here you go.
You could also try a bios reset. Kind of a hail mary at this point.
I would test that nvme on some other PC
Do not have another PC to test on
Take it to a friend?
That or you get one of these.
These are just handy to have around anyway. so even if your drive is borked you can still find something to do with the sled.
Yeah I have no idea, hopefully I can return it
So I think I'm going to just leave the other drive with Bazzite until I get a replacement
Which I'm guessing I can't just install windows11 on the new drive and dual boot will work no issues
So I'll have to wipe this drive whenever the new one comes
I'm not a huge dual boot expert but no, What you might do is take out the bazzite drive when you do the windows install, then put it back in.
Yeah idk! I just wanted to prepare for linux but instead my drive died? it gets warm so something is going on
Like it's active
You'll then boot to bazzite and run ujust regenerate-grub
You do that in the terminal
Huh no I can still boot into bazzite
I'm telling you what you need to do when you get a replacement windows drive.
that ujust command will put your windows boot into the grub menu so you can dual boot again without wiping your bazzite drive and starting over again.
oh okay, thanks
that's was the idea to have the boot menu start every boot up so I can pick whichever one I wanted to go into
Yep.
How is the Linux support for PSXC2 ?
I need to have something to play while I wait for the new stuff
It's great. Install emudeck.
Or retrodeck.
either are great options.
im guessing thats its totally fine to use stuff from my storage drive like running media files and roms/iso stuff?
yep, generally, don't do anything fancy on ntfs and you will be fine
also
no steam games on ntfs
it will kill that filesystem
I figured, I most likely wont bother since none of my current games work on linux
I'd be curious what doesn't work at this point.
I've had some surprising good fortune on that front.
Minus oblivion remastered not working on my intel gpu.
But that should be fixed once mesa gets updated.
Arena Breakout Infinite
MGS2 Master Collection
and Marvel Rivals
those are the games in currently playing
I think Arena doesnt work due to the anti cheat
and im guessing Rivals has the same issue!
Probably why i have good luck. I don't play mmo's lol
rivals work
games from master collection should work also
played 1 and 2
anyway some tinkering was needed
for 2
I see
does linux struggle with monitors or is it just the nvidia drivers that are trash
running 2xDP cables to my monitors and 1 HDMI that goes to my TV
and when i try to run the tv in 4k 60Hz it doesnt display
I'm a bit biased since I hate Nvidia. But yes the drivers are trash.
probably, i cant even pick 60hz on the 4k mode on the tv
works fine on windows
I've heard the new hdmi standard is the reason for the 60hz thing
in linux
not even HDR!
its fine though
I think you have to get a displayport to hdmi dongle to get it to work.
1440p 60Hz works
Im just going to watch old tv shows anyway
Well the thing about Linux is that we the community need to do all on our own, most companies don't give a shit.
Of course, but its a nvidia issue no?
unless AMD also cant do that over hdmi
That i think is specific to the HDMI standard.
Nvidia is hit or miss, one version of drivers are cool, the next iteration brings tons of regressions.
Yeah, I saw that when it comes to linux gaming
I mean is not that bad now anyway
And getting better
AMD is the way though
Ars Technica
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
Linux users can’t hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.
@Scotty yeah but this is for amd
I have no plans currently to game on linux anyway
emulation is good I heard though
4k should work just fine on NVIDIA
I think this effects nvidia and intel though.
It's because of drm protections and the hdmi standard.
I mean its definitely something specific to linux
but like I said, only to watch older tv shows so its no big deal
If you ever want to try it you can get a dp to hdmi passthrough pretty cheap.
VLC works and my media from my storage drive works so
Pretty sure 4k works normally on NVIDIA Linux
via DP perhaps
my HDMI cable is long and connected to a TV
Nah, I can see people here talking about it
Nvidia blob driver has drm for it, open AMD driver was rejected.
I have no idea what that is, this is literally my first time on the OS and it took me like 10 minutes to install Discord
And yes, I know I have that discovery hub
I realized that too late
NVIDIA drivers for Linux have support for 4k and 120hz on Linux.
AMD only via DisplayPort
I guess they get away with it since their drivers are closed source.
Yep
How do I snip!
Like a screenshot?
30Hz is the max I can choose
the TV does 60Hz
Eww
I've had mine run at 30 hz and it just hurts my eyes.
I havent updated my nvidia drivers though is that something I need to do manually ?`
go into terminal and type ujust configure-nvidia
see what happens
NVIDIA are part of the main system image you don't update them separately on Bazzite.
alright then i dunno
actually my tv doesnt even display an image if i pick 4k
only at 1440p and lower
Anyways thanks for the help, now im gonna go watch my tv show and be sour over the dead drive :SCGwhy:
This may be no help at all, but thought I'd suggest just in case. From the shots it looks like you've been doing stuff in boot options vs bios setup.
Not all bios support this, but if you go into the bios setup (maybe F2 instead of F12 - not sure if that's the same for all), and you find where your drives are listed, sometimes you can tell the bios to ignore certain drives (tick them or untick). This is what I do to install Linux on another drive - only tick the ones I want to use with Linux and untick the Windows ones - and do the reverse when booting into Windows - saves physically pulling drives and faffing about with Windows aggravating boot options.
If any drives are unticked, they just don't get seen by the rest of the BIOS or anything else (this is fresh in my mind because I spent a frustrating day trying to access a drive I'd unticked a year ago and forgotten about lol). I wonder if your drive is still good but somehow got turned off in the bios setup.
I also noticed that you said you turned secure boot off to install Bazzite - did you turn it back on to get back into Windows?
So inside of my bios is where I would find this?
In mine it looks like the picture in this post (which talks about the same thing) - soz I didn't know how to take a screenshot from bios 🙂 https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/storage-drives-media/disable-drives-for-precision-7510-pcie-ssd-solved/647f6bc1f4ccf8a8de8e5d6e
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