aha. booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs.
how do I go about recovering this??? On December 5, 2024 9:03:45 PM EST, nsrxnst <nsrx...@bruttocarattere.org> wrote: >while I was at work, chaos happened in my house. my wife cleaned my office, >and her nephew locked himself in there. > >my Debian install has never been ideal: the GUI is spotty, but the underlying >system has always functioned just fine, and to that extent, I have used it as >a home server. > >it was powered off when I got home. > >upon selecting the appropriate option from grub, manually or automatically, it >begins the boot process, displays errors too fast to comprehend, and the >screen goes to a cursor, then black. repeated power button long-presses seem >to be the only thing that brings it back to life, but only so long as I don't >try to boot the installed os. > >can someone help me troubleshoot this?
