what started as trying to get my old linux mint pc set up to play WoW on a road trip quickly turned into the perfect 8 hour example of why i don’t main Linux (no offense). i am now sitting with my laptop stuck on grub rescue and all of my drive partitions unrecognized/wiped, and seemingly no way to create an installation media to save this poor machine
from the beginning, everything was wrong: i tried to use lutris & bottles to get battle.net, but no matter what i could not get it to work. i eventually fell into thinking i had to fix my graphics drivers, and installed the complete wrong ones and screwed up my whole OS lmao. this led to me trying to install ubuntu, except i don’t have a usb stick so i ended up getting the iso working through grub. it launched, and i assumed i was in the clear, but after a bit the installation failed and i was devastated. restarted the pc, tried for a few hours to debug, nothing, and now i’m here.
at this point, i’m more focused on getting this working just as a challenge for myself than actually playing WoW
i tried using
if anybody has ANY ideas, please reply. the only thing I can think of is rooting my friend’s android phone and using drivedroid, but i’d rather not do that since it isn’t my phone
from the beginning, everything was wrong: i tried to use lutris & bottles to get battle.net, but no matter what i could not get it to work. i eventually fell into thinking i had to fix my graphics drivers, and installed the complete wrong ones and screwed up my whole OS lmao. this led to me trying to install ubuntu, except i don’t have a usb stick so i ended up getting the iso working through grub. it launched, and i assumed i was in the clear, but after a bit the installation failed and i was devastated. restarted the pc, tried for a few hours to debug, nothing, and now i’m here.
at this point, i’m more focused on getting this working just as a challenge for myself than actually playing WoW
i tried using
ls
in grub rescue to check my partitions but they all say Filesystem is unknown.
Ubuntu ISO would still be on my drive but honestly that file is probably long goneif anybody has ANY ideas, please reply. the only thing I can think of is rooting my friend’s android phone and using drivedroid, but i’d rather not do that since it isn’t my phone