The Sand Trap

Yeah I would really recommend finding another computer, even if you have to go to a public library or something, and making a backup of that SD card

GingerBot

4:35 PM

right

will see what can do

but it's not a day with Ginger without some horrendous bodge that threatens your data and your sanity!

oh, this is very interesting! this browser has an option to "use an external downlaod program"

so maybe I can paste a command to mount /boot into there!

more research needed

aw fuc read-only filesystem

okay guess I get to do the boring solution and find another computer

I'll let yall know if it works

signing off

NoHaxJustRadvylf

o/

mathcat

5:18 PM

@ThomasWard (especially in the shadows) [ • •]

@GingerBot hope you manage to restore your data!

NoHaxJustRadvylf

8:21 PM

Just read the most underwhelming news article in history

Unrelated String

oh boy

NoHaxJustRadvylf

"Hoover Dam explodes" sounds like it'd be really bad but it's just a transformer on fire lol

Unrelated String

LMAO

GingerBot

Hi

I have not in fact fixed it

Do any of you kind humans have a raspberry pi with NOOBS installed?

Running Raspbian?

@RadvylfPrograms you have a pi right?

NoHaxJustRadvylf

Yeah, no NOOBS though

GingerBot

8:30 PM

I need the help of someone who satisfies the above conditions

Sad

My plan is to copy the NOOBS settings from a functional Pi into my broken one

NoHaxJustRadvylf

You can probably google the default ones, right?

GingerBot

You're not going to believe me when I say this: I didn't think to try that

nothing

The issue is that the settings are a folder and not just one file

Please spread the word of my plight

Meanwhile I will try another solution

OOH

I can actually get to a shell from NOOBS!

Okay I have logged in as root

...now what

NoHaxJustRadvylf

8:46 PM

Well first, I'd back it up to google drive or some other online service

Then you could probably just reinstall the OS and partially restore from backup if it overwrites any data

GingerBot

I don't think drive can hold 100gb of data

Also that would take a long time

NoHaxJustRadvylf

Oh, hm. You have 100gb of un-backed-up data?

GingerBot

It's not quite that much but yea

That's why I want to not have to reinstall

And all my data is there!!! I just need to fix NOOBS and we're good

But the fixing is the problem

So, I have come up with an idea

Install raspbian using NOOBS on spare SD card and copy the settings over

But that would also be slow

So if anyone has a pi that satisfies the above criteria please tell me!

@JoKing hi do you have pi

Jo King

yeah, i have a spare one lying around

GingerBot

Does it have NOOBS

As summarized above I need to restore the /settings from a functional pi

Jo King

8:53 PM

dunno, been saving it for a project

GingerBot

If you turn it on and it says "press shift to enter recovery" it has NOOBS

NoHaxJustRadvylf

Why don't you just download a second .img of NOOBS?

GingerBot

Can't

NoHaxJustRadvylf

What?

GingerBot

It's not on the site anymore

NoHaxJustRadvylf

8:54 PM

I'm sure there's a copy of it somewhere

GingerBot

NOOBS is ostensibly deprecated

Maybe I can find a copy

NoHaxJustRadvylf

github.com/raspberrypi/noobs

GingerBot

No img just zip

Jo King

maybe the real NOOBS were the friends we made along the way

NoHaxJustRadvylf

No, but the settings folder doesn't magically appear. It's in the repo somewhere.

GingerBot

8:57 PM

It does magically appear, actually

NOOBS generates a per-os settings folder upon install

and when I foofed up earlier it deleted it as part of its setup process

NoHaxJustRadvylf

Do you need NOOBS?

GingerBot

Oh wait a sec

NoHaxJustRadvylf

It seems like it'd save you a lot of trouble to just install Raspbian directly

GingerBot

AHA FOUND AN IMG

ok, flashing now

NoHaxJustRadvylf

Wait

Flashing?

Make sure not to overwrite anything, I was gonna suggest mounting it as a loop

GingerBot

9:00 PM

...wat

I haven't started yet, fortunately

What is this "loop" of which you speak?

NoHaxJustRadvylf

mount -o loop xyz.img /mnt

Mounts the .img so you can poke around and take what you need

GingerBot

well what I really need is to RUN NOOBS to generate the settings

Thanks for the help tho

nvm it wasn't the img

:/

GingerBot

9:34 PM

Okay, I have successfully created a new settings directory

Copying now

Update: turns out it wasn't correct, trying again

hey @GingerBot should've asked earlier but are you okay with me possessing your body?

@GingerBot yea no problem bro go ahead

Ok nice

Alright install complete, let's yoink these files

Here we go

Oh shid

It's stuck in a boot loop

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