need help, linux bricked or something (not easy problem)

[formal coral]

so i used arch install, then everything worked fine for 8 or so hours and then i restarted for the 9th time or so and this happened.

didnt use a usb to install aswell (dont have one cant get one)

big mistake

[dreamy shore]

ok can you run lsblk -f

and show the output

[formal coral]

lsblk not found

[dreamy shore]

try ls /

[formal coral]

ive tried it

[formal coral]

okay

[formal coral]

ive tried chatgpt, gave me so many fixes

but none worked

blkid, lsblk, fdisk dont work

[dreamy shore]

can you ls new_root/?

[dreamy shore]

can you ls /dev

and ls /bin

[formal coral]

so much output give me a sec ill make a video

the quality is ass if i record a video

[formal coral]

@dreamy shore anything i can do or am i cooked

[dreamy shore]

idk do you have a usb

with the archinstaller

wait

just try reboot

[formal coral]

nah i dont have one i installed with a usb

[formal coral]

ive done that 😭

[dreamy shore]

wdym

[formal coral]

i meant

i installed without a usb

[dreamy shore]

how

@formal coral

explain pls

[formal coral]

so i made a partition, 100gb, made a simple volume too (2 gb) then i mounted the arch iso and dragged the files from there to the simple volume then i just set ids and restarted and installed using archinstaller

all done on windows btw

[dreamy shore]

ok fair enough

[formal coral]

so is there any way of me fixing my pc without a usb

[dreamy shore]

yeah idk

i'd suggest

finding a usb

getting onto another computer (friends house or sth if you dont got another one)

[formal coral]

ill buy a usb with windows or something

[dreamy shore]

no

buy a usb

flash it with arch installer somewhere on someone elses computer

[formal coral]

ion got any other computer

my friends play mobile

[dreamy shore]

go to a friend

holy gen alpha

ask your parents

idk

[formal coral]

😭

[dreamy shore]

anyone with a computer

[formal coral]

ill js buy a usb with it or sum

[dreamy shore]

a laptop

anything

[formal coral]

mum basically said no 😭

im cooked

[dreamy shore]

wdym

to use her laptop

or to get a usb

maybe ask your school it dept if they can let you format a usb

[formal coral]

she doesnt have one

[formal coral]

and i dont go to school

[dreamy shore]

ok

public library

idk

friend

[formal coral]

😭

[formal coral]

told u they all got phones

[dreamy shore]

no one with a laptop

how old are you guys

[formal coral]

im 15

[formal coral]

nope

my whole family uses phones

cant i literally

use a android

as a usb

or something

[dreamy shore]

where is this

this generation is so cooked

[formal coral]

bro

my whole family is just me and my mom 😭

[dreamy shore]

where is ts

where could you find a laptop

go to a computer shop

and use their test laptops to flash your usb

[formal coral]

😭

ill see

but i lowk need ts asap

for my work

so yeah

im js looking for help here

[dreamy shore]

idfk man

something messed up with the fstab

[formal coral]

i got a little idea to try

ill try it in a bit

[dreamy shore]

explain

[sick dragon]

get a usb

[formal coral]

it didnt work 😭

just dw

[formal coral]

i would

[sick dragon]

yeah do it

that eshell is useless afaik

you want a usb to boot arch iso

to fix it

[fierce geode]

Well that in the best case makes things worse, anyway I can tell that you are dropped into emergency mode. Can you try to change your init system to /bin/sh? Then you don't need a USB, if you use grub you can do that by pressing 'e' on the entry and changing init=/bin/sh

From there we can fix whatever is wrong

[formal coral]

okay ill try in a second

[dreamy shore]

the kernel cannot switch out of the initramfs

[fierce geode]

So?

[dreamy shore]

i dont think it can mount the normal os

they are gonna get the same cmds

[fierce geode]

It can

[dreamy shore]

same initramfs /bin

maybe they get a good devfs which they can mount with?