[13:01] <jrwren> oh man, i just convertted from grub boot to efi boot on the first try on my linux install from 15+yrs ago.
[13:03] <jrwren> having never messed with efi booting linux, ever.
[13:09] <cmaloney> How was the experience?
[13:10] <jrwren> well, terrible when it was storms midday yesterday which trashed my external USB drives which prompted the reboot and the reboot failed 
[13:11] <jrwren> but the actual mounting of /efi and creating 2 text files and copying kernel and initrd in was no problem.
[13:11] <cmaloney> Oof
[13:11] <cmaloney> But cool nonetheless
[13:12] <jrwren> I'm just happy it went smoothly. far better than most grub recoveries I've ever done.
[13:12] <cmaloney> That sounds more pleasant than my experience with my hardware which usually requires boot repair
[13:12] <cmaloney> (that said, I've not tried efiboot)
[13:16] <jrwren> i followed this adn skipped the irrelevant parts (most of it) https://gist.github.com/OdinsPlasmaRifle/e16700b83624ff44316f87d9cdbb5c94
[13:18] <jrwren> ugh... this filesystem to toasted. never seen ext4 crash so badly. it is on an LVM mirror too, so it isn't underlying HW fail, it is pure corruption. I'm rather upset.
[13:19] <jrwren> run fsck, repairs done, ls the root of the fs, more errors. repeat indefinitely.
[13:24] <waldo323_> oh man thats rough :-\ 
[13:26] <cmaloney> Ugh
[13:26] <cmaloney> Wonder if LVM went for a toss
[13:27] <cmaloney> Though I'd have no idea how to test that
[13:28] <jrwren> could be.
[13:28] <jrwren> I've got 10 other FS on that LVM VG and 1 had errors, but they recovered fine after a single fsck.
[13:29] <jrwren> hey! looks like i was wrong. it just took 3 fscks and now that busted up FS seems OK.
[13:30] <jrwren> definitely lost some data.
[13:30] <jrwren> weird, maybe not, just got another error.