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I bought myself a new cpu and now i'm unable to boot to my linux drive - Thematemat - 12-03-2018
Hi
So i bought myself a Ryzen 3 1300x on sale to replace my A6-9500 and now i can't boot from my linux drive but everything works just fine i booted my windows 10 drive and it works. Windows sees all my ext4 drives (of course i can't use them cuz windoz doesn't like ext4). When i force it in bios to boot from my linux ssd all i see is blinking _
Do i have to reinstall my linux or is there something i can do about it?
Re: I bought myself a new cpu and now i'm unable to boot to my linux drive - Thematemat - 12-03-2018
I've reinstalled the system. Everything was fine I've formatted drives and installer said that installation was completed i restarted the pc but still I can't boot to linux so that didn't helped
Re: I bought myself a new cpu and now i'm unable to boot to my linux drive - Thematemat - 12-03-2018
Well i was reinstalling the Linux again and again and again and now it finally works (at least for now). I have good backups so no worries no data was lost in this process. Yes i'm aware that there might have been just a much simper solution to all of this like some terminal magic but I'm a new Linux user so i don't know how to do that yet and the google was very unhelpful too. I'm glad that my PC works again fine so i hope that's end of this whatever this is
. My rant about broken computerz
Re: I bought myself a new cpu and now i'm unable to boot to my linux drive - Valtam - 12-04-2018
I'd take the same approach with a new CPU that was different enough from the previous (socket type). Clean install.
Re: I bought myself a new cpu and now i'm unable to boot to my linux drive - Thematemat - 12-04-2018
Great! Thanks for telling me that but would i have to do a clean install after changing my graphics card because i might need to buy one very soon.
By the way so far I'm loving my Linux Lite experience everything works much better than in Windows I didn't have to go back to my Windows drive until yesterday but that was emergency situation (I had to make bootable USB drive) so thanks for developing awesome system
Re: I bought myself a new cpu and now i'm unable to boot to my linux drive - Valtam - 12-04-2018
Depends what graphics card you have, vs. which one you buy.
Re: I bought myself a new cpu and now i'm unable to boot to my linux drive - Thematemat - 12-04-2018
Ok thanks when I'll be making a change I'll be prepared to have a bootable usb drive to make a clean install if anything happens.
Re: I bought myself a new cpu and now i'm unable to boot to my linux drive - TheDead - 12-05-2018
Heya and Welcome to the Forums!
Since you are dual booting this is harder to do but I usually keep a Clonezilla backup of the HDD for a quick clone to a new machine.
I do not put the proprietary drivers on it though, just in case I change hardware.
Cheers!
Re: I bought myself a new cpu and now i'm unable to boot to my linux drive - Thematemat - 12-05-2018
Thanks for recommendation