aw frick aw darn aw shoot aw crapbasket

turn computer on -> decrypt LVM volume successfully -> enter password -> "a i missed a character, guess I'll wait for it to load the prompt again" -> full minute passes -> "huh guess something's wrong, i'll try ctrl+alt+fn trick" -> still nothing -> "power button?" -> regular press doesn't work so i hold it down to try booting again -> UEFI screen -> no boot entries detected -> "UH OH"

boot volume isn't encrypted so very unclear what's failed here. reallllly hope it isn't the drive itself though fortunately I have a very recent backup + git commit so I lost an hour of work at most. still sucks to have to deal with...