Stuck on boot screen

[AcceptableMonitor8]

Last night I was using Linux Mint as usual and today after I decided to power on my PC, the screen just stays on the rotating boot logo. Pressing F1-F12 displays

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 clean, ######/##### files, ########/###### blocks 

Luckily I made a timeshift backup yesterday but I don't know how to restore it from the current state


Any help would be appreciated.

[Cosmo.]

Boot the live system, run Timeshift from the menu, in Timeshift point to the partition, where the snapshots are stored, than do the restore.

[AcceptableMonitor8]

I tried that but in the end I get a Restore Completed with Errors.
After i try booting up the system again, I'm just getting a GNU Grub terminal and nothing else.

I should also point out that i'm running a dual boot of Linux Mint and Windows 10 on 2 seperate SSDs

[mikeflan]

If I were you I would disable faststartup in windows even though you shouldn't have to.
You can always enable it again.

Boot into windows and disable faststartup:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disa ... st-startup
viewtopic.php?p=2067102#p2067102
https://fosspost.org/prepare-your-pc-fo ... cure-boot/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdLcJLKEMbY

If you have a desktop system try disconnecting one drive, then the other. Will each boot on its own?

[AcceptableMonitor8]

I disabled fast startup and now after i wait for Linux to boot up during its usual loop, it throws out a BusyBox v1.30.1 built-in shell after some time as well as

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/dev/nvme0n1p1: recovering journal

alongside the the line i mentioned in the original post

[Cosmo.]

Use a different Timeshift snapshot.

[AcceptableMonitor8]

I only have that one since I've installed LM recently

[Cosmo.]

Then I suggest to do a new install. Before you do this backup all user data, if there is any. You can do this from the live system.

[AcceptableMonitor8]

When I try to open the M.2 drive from the live boot, it takes a long time before i get an error message and after that I can no longer see it in the menu.

https://imgur.com/a/dZJUnIr

[actaris]

I have the same issue on a fresh install (an old EE PC with Intel Atom N570)