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

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 15:19, Walt Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com> wrote:

> I'm equally puzzled why you think I'm holding out on my explanations.

But you absolutely were and are, and this message confirms it.

> I believe I set up 4 partitions on the SSD: /, /usr, /var, and
> /home.

/me looks surprised

1. At the complexity of the config
2. You "believe"?!

> Maybe I also made a swap partition, or maybe I decided to only
> use swap files. I forget.

/me's surprise grows

> I also forget how much space I allocated to
> each, and it's hard to look up now given the state it's currently in.

/me moves on to astonishment

> My /usr had gotten pretty big over the years. One of the biggest
> offenders was supertuxkart, which likes to store the data for new
> tracks under /usr/games.

/me is now speechless

> I'm not sure what you're referring to as "moving /usr". I'd moved
> /usr/games and /usr/local to the big spinning HDD and symlinked them
> back to /usr. Everything else was still there, which of course is
> where I want them to be for speed.

/me finds mere speechless astonishment no longer adequate and is
forced to resort to open amazement

> Complicating the solution of "why don't I just do a fresh install?" is
> that both the smallish SSD and the large HDD are RAID-1 arrays.

OMG WTF

OK, I am out.

Needlessly Byzantine config, previously undescribed and undisclosed,
and you can't even remember the sizes?

I got nothing. Sorry, man.

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