Today i thought of installing kubuntu and after installing it i found out that I didn't like it so i booted from zorin Live USB and installed zorin... After that I opened timeshift and I did a system restore... The problem was that I was at mid run locked out to zorin lockscreen and I was unable to unlock. Thats when my pc froze. I forced a reboot and I was brought to grub minimal shell... So I tried re installing zorin, doing restore again but this time it rebooted itself before finishing... At that moment I got same grub shell... Then after re gointto zorin live usb I formatted my ssd so to clean all of that mess and this is my partition table
But when I proceed to the install I got
The attempt to mount a file system with type vfat at /boot/efi failed
So I was basically left with not knowing what to do... Secure boot was always enabled even before the os change...
Luckily I took a backup of my home dir and a timeshift snapshot before that... But I want to return back and don't know how without risking my data
I also have an older laptop that has my system from 2 months ago and im thinking of doing a disk image backup and putting it on my new laptop... This worked well back then when ai migrated to my new laptop.... What do you think I should do😭 @Aravisian
I would do a clean install, without restoring TimeShift.
Then, move over the backup files from the Home Directory that you saved, Except For The~/.config and /.local folders.
@Aravisian
Ok I did a clean install and everything now works... I will most likely copy the home directory from timeshift to mine, this is where my wine, everything lives
Im sad that I brought my os to an unrecoverable state, I should have taken a restore disk img from disks and though of that before hand... Anyways lesson learned... Again thank you
Once you are happy that you have all the apps you need you could use Rescuezilla to backup your entire disc or just your root (/) partition, and manually backup your /home folder including hidden files, manually. Don't use Timeshift to backup your /home folder if you are working on an unfinished document as you will lose any additional work on a document say. Additionally always make sure your Timeshift snapshots are saved to a partition formatted to Ext4 FS, the same as Zorin, or you won't be able to restore it.
