My Linux laptop died. It gets a BIOS error on boot. I don't know what is happening, this happened a year ago and I fixed it but don't remember how. Something about decrypting the hard drive (really a SSD) but I can't stop calling them hard drives.
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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)
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2026-08-12 23:16:50 UTC
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