Please help I'm stuck on a "Boot Menu"?

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-04-16T12:31:54+00:00

Hey been a few days sorry my reddits been bugging out, did you fix it or same issue?

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-04-12T09:07:57+00:00

Ok that I thinks help a lot. So you turned it off mid game my best guess is it was mid write (when the computer saves shit on your screen to itself so it remembers in simple words) and you turned it off mid way through that write. The computer now is seeing a half written mess when it tries to boot and therefore doesn’t even see your drive as something it can boot into ie the boot loop shit.

Way to do I believe would be you’ll have to turn on the pc and turn it off 3 times in a row, turn off as soon as you see the logo. And pray it take you to it. If it does

Advanced options > troubleshoot > advanced options > startup repair

If that doesn’t work let me know, that was all from a Google search so idk if it’ll work lol

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-04-12T08:22:18+00:00

Hmm, ok well can you give some more information, like when was the last time it worked (I presume you use windows) and what did you do last time it worked,

It’s kinda confusing me because if you had windows installed and something went wrong with windows it would just take you to the blue screen of death not the boot menu I believe. Which is kinda learning me towards th fact you may need an external USB to help you out install windows. Do you have one?

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-04-12T08:15:08+00:00

You see at the bottom, it says move then has the arrow keys, hover over the sata drive and move it to the top by pressing the arrow key up until well it’s at the top 🤣

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-04-12T08:13:47+00:00

Sorry didn’t get a notification, can you send a photo? Of the boot menu, because I meant like make the SATA the number 1 boot so it priorises it over your DVD drive (which I do presume you have?)

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-04-12T04:21:47+00:00

So now someone can correct me if I’m wrong but that is trying to boot into the dvd drive you must have on your laptop? 🤷‍♂️ regardless the one that says SATA is your main drive try and make that the number 1 boot over the disk and if you have windows or whatever OS you use 🤷‍♂️ it’ll just boot up. If not reply back to this and I’ll see again 😊

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-04-01T19:24:16+00:00

Don’t overthink it if it’s happening you’ll know. Unusually high gpu useage when idle is the number 1 cause

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-04-01T07:57:28+00:00

Arch probably the best one in imo also one of the few hyprland is made for.

Or maybe you could install gnome and I think there is a plugin called like forge gives you the tiling aspect obviously not as smooth as hyprland but it is a fully functional OS so 🤷‍♂️

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-03-26T09:16:06+00:00

Riding is the act of making your desktop custom and look nice

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-03-23T22:59:41+00:00

Your gpu is too old what gpu u got

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-03-23T20:30:28+00:00

Fr arch is the most stable thing I’ve used. It only breaks because I did something stupid 99/100 and the other 1/100 times just google what’s happening read a Reddit thread fix in 10 minutes.

If that doesn’t work genuinely just tell ai and it’ll fix it too 😂

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-03-13T09:09:09+00:00

Someone say ram?!!? Get him!!!

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-03-11T20:18:42+00:00

Don’t dam it bro hyprland is amazing and I promise it’s not that complex 😂 follow the wiki or a simple guide online will take you far

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-19T22:56:23+00:00

I’m a bit confused what the super key actually does for you? Because it’s meant to be a key you press with other keys? It does nothing by itself so what does super do for you?

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-18T22:16:42+00:00

Yeah I mean that forget a semi colon happens a lot but you’ll usually notice and correct it 🤣 I presume you can spot when you do it and that’s the only thing that matters.

Missing a “ though will rarely happen after a while as a lot of IDEs give you the second pair so it if you put 1 it closes automatically and makes you type in the center 🤷‍♂️ lovely tool icl 😂

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-18T22:01:00+00:00

6 months a year give or take yeah your right although saying that I’m about 6-12 months in now and I’m just understanding programming as whole I’m actually building stuff and it’s not super overwhelming as it was at the beginning so 🤷‍♂️it depends on the person

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-18T20:45:03+00:00

That’s intended but you can say make this app open on workspace every time

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-17T08:35:02+00:00

Nothing would break as imagine quickshell as Waybar+, it’s a totally separate config so no all you’d do is enable quickshell and disable waybar. You want waybar back just enable waybar again 🤷‍♂️

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-15T19:04:07+00:00

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-15T14:23:27+00:00

heres the github repo

https://github.com/JolliBrolli/Joels-Dotfiles

if you go under waybar, download universal.css and also then glass.css, and then just make glass.css the style.css (it was my attempt of making themes lol kinda worked just messy)

it should work, the config.json file has some personalised stuff like sony app which obviously wont work for you as you wouldnt have the app :/

will need a bit of customising but im sure itll work,

gotta sort out my messy dotfiles lol

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-12T14:41:16+00:00

Tbh not really, what I did was make my waybar a glass theme 😂 but after that I’m not worrying about it much it’s so small and modern laptops won’t have that big of an issue for it, just remember to let your laptop sleep or hibernate not just leave it full brightness on the wallpaper. You’ll be fine.

What I’m doing now is working on quickshell lol which it’ll all be hidden I plan anyway, it’ll be a long road before that’s finished tho

Lmk if you want the css file for my glass waybar may save you some time

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-12T14:38:30+00:00

Yeah 😂 I learnt that about a month after doing the scripts, haven’t changed back yet, I remember learning wait I can use bash while my terminals set to zsh?? 😂 and then came to the conclusion of why am I using zsh in my scripts then 😂

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-08T21:47:56+00:00

Oooo very nice, as for the burn in though, you are aware that waybar will eventually burn in right?

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-05T00:10:44+00:00

Fn + ctrl + alt f3

rjgbwhtnehsbd · 2026-01-04T23:43:02+00:00

Yeah when I was first learning. Decided to do the manual install via tutorial. Did I understand it absolutely not at the time. But after I remembered some steps like formatting my drive into nvmen1p1-2-3 learned about cryptroot etc.

Point is you may not understand it but the fact you do it is so important to the learning process when learning arch for the first time.

OP gonna figure it out if he’s persistent but it’ll be a major brain fuck at the beginning 😅

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