Pop! Os bootloader issues

[ChrisIsEditing]

Hey, I have a issue with the bootloader.

I had an issue with pop, so I did a clean install, hoping to fix the issue.
But after doing a clean install, my PC would not boot. Apoun further analysis, someone found out that the bootloader partition was missing.

So we used Gparted in the installer to add in the bootloader partition. But after trying to install, the entire installer crashed.

Not only have I lost all my data, I've now lost my PC too. 

 

Do any of you perhaps know why the installer didn't create a fresh partition for the bootloader?

Is there a way to fix this this issue?
Thanks

[Needfuldoer]

Welcome to the desktop Linux experience.

 

The installer may have put GRUB on a different drive, or even the install media.

[Kilrah]

Prepare a flash drive with boot-repair-disk and boot from that, it'll likely be able to get you going.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/

[Ralphred]

On 5/2/2023 at 12:35 PM, Needfuldoer said:

The installer may have put GRUB

Pop! uses the systemd bootloader; the documentation for it (as usual) is atrocious. OP may be better of learning how grub works and installing that manually - the gentoo and/or arch wikis are good places to start for this sort of requirement, though just a decent toolkit and a drive format may "re-enable" the pop installer.