I'm enrolled in an intense writing workshop at my campus this week, and thought it would be incredibly helpful to have a portable version of Solus on a USB like some of the other distros. I read that creating such a USB can sometimes cause booting problems, so as an added precaution I disabled my HDD storage control driver in my motherboard, booted into Solus Live on USB, and installed Solus Budgie 4.1 with EFI onto the USB drive. I updated the fresh USB install, rebooted and re-enabled my HDD storage control driver.
Unfortunately, to my dismay, the HDD GNU/Linux bootloader was gone. (The Windows bootloader is still there and working though. 🙄) I then proceeded to complete a boot rescue, which unfortunately did not correct the issue. In fact, several of the triggers following sudo usysconf run -f
were "skipped", which I don't think is normal. I can, however, boot to this portable version of Solus on the original machine. (I've tried it on only one campus computer so far, but after booting it crashes immediately following login.) I do have efibootmgr
installed on USB Solus, but have not attempted using it on the original machine for fear I may do more harm than good.
I really needed to make hay on my writing, but am now at a standstill. Please, how should I best proceed to restore the HDD Linux Boot Loader?