I accidentally deleted all the contents of my boot partition on my PBP NVMe SSD. The root partition is fine. I’m using Tow-Boot.
I’ve installed Manjaro to my eMMC and I am currently booting it. My NVMe probably contains everything I need to restore /boot on the NVMe. For example, I have /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-6.25-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst and all my other package archives.
Can I run pacman from my eMMC system and tell it to install the needed package(s) from my NVMe drive onto the boot partition of my NVMe drive?
Perhaps I can simply umount the eMMC /boot partition, mount the NVMe boot partition in its place and then open a terminal in on the NVMe (/run/media…/var/cache/pacman/pkg/) folder and type "pacman -U <package.zst>?
What packages do I need to install?
If the above wonderfully simple idea won’t work, do I need to use some kind of chroot command to chroot to the old system first?
I’m nearly certain this isn’t a big deal but all I could find was Windows EFI recovery advice in these forums.
Thanks a bunch!
-Cal
P.S. Unrelated but why does Tow-Boot say
WARNING: Bad CRC. Using default environment.during boot.
I recently installed Tow-Boot to my SPI to replace u-boot installed on other drives at various times.
