System won't boot after failed upgrade from 23.10 to 24.05

[Walt Mankowski]

On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 06:13:50PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 06:02:20PM -0400, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
> > Another way would be to boot a live system from USB, mount and chroot into
> > broken system and try continuing the upgrade.
> 
> That's probably going to be the next thing I do.
> 
> > However, given the backups, I would probably just do a fresh install.
> 
> All things being equal I'd prefer to try to recover it. If not, well,
> the box is about 6 years old. It might be easier to just build a new
> box!

Well, I tried that, but so far I haven't even managed to get it to
boot off the flash drive. I go into the boot menu in the BIOS, select
"USB-HDD", but then it goes and boots off the internal HDD.

I tried unplugging my backup drive, which is also a USB HDD. Still not
working. And now I can't even get the BIOS to go into the Boot Menu
anymore!

I'm about ready to give up and buy a new system. I'm out of things to
try.

Walt
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