After taking out and putting back an M.2 Drive, I can no longer boot
by DiBosco from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5K9ZH)
I have had a lot of problems with nvidia graphics drivers on my Mageia installation recently, so took out my M.2 drive with my install on it and tried booting from a SATA drive with a fresh install and updating all drivers to see if the problem was on a specific install and/or the very latest drivers had fixed my issue.
They hadn't, so I put my M.2 drive back in, but now that will not longer boot.
If I run from a SATA drive, then the data is still there on my M.2 drive, so I have clearly not destroyed it. If I try to reinstall on to my M.2 drive, the Mageia installer tells me I have no EFI partition any more and I have to erase the whole disk.
Is there a way to recover my EFI partition? I really don't know why carefully removing and reinstalling the M.2 drive would cause this to happen.
Many thanks.
They hadn't, so I put my M.2 drive back in, but now that will not longer boot.
If I run from a SATA drive, then the data is still there on my M.2 drive, so I have clearly not destroyed it. If I try to reinstall on to my M.2 drive, the Mageia installer tells me I have no EFI partition any more and I have to erase the whole disk.
Is there a way to recover my EFI partition? I really don't know why carefully removing and reinstalling the M.2 drive would cause this to happen.
Many thanks.