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So I got this weird bug – I updated my Pop_OS install and now Linux doesn't boot anymore. I should probably boot from USB and fix this. I could figure it out on my own, but maybe it will be good knowledge for people searching on engines so any advice is welcome. Windows still boots properly. Let's give people some alternatives to reddit :)
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I had a similar issue around 2 years ago now on POP where my bootloader didn't even show up in the bios anymore.
If you still have the a USB with the live boot of POP you can use it to recover your files n stuff.
What errors do you get on boot? Also, are Windows and Linux on the same drive, or separate?
thats strange, my boot menu has 2 kernel selections for pop os, the current one and one that is the previous running kernel. if a pop os update breaks my system i can just boot from the other kernel image. which has only happened once in 5 years. but was able to wait for pop to push fixes etc and then dist upgrade.
since you dont seem to have that option, you may need to boot from live usb and investigate further.
when you try to boot into it what happens?
This is common in rolling releases, but Pop OS isn't a rolling release distro. Maybe a package you installed or something similar?