I made a huge mistake and now I can't boot into system

I was making a restore of qubes in my new freshly installed system, but by mistake I got sys-net restored too, after restart I can’t boot the system because the new sys-net and old one are getting conflicted or idk.
After ssd phasephrase it gets stuck.

Any idea how to resolve hiq ?

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Could you use terminal? Try to use CTRL + ALT + F2 on system boot, you will see the terminal, after that please share sudo dmesg executing command result

You mean after typing LUKS password?

Did you restore dom0 too, as i don’t see how restoring an additional sys-net would cause an issue unless you don’t have enough RAM perhaps.

You could try booting using an older or different kernel in grub before you reach at Disk encryption passphrase.

you also could try skipping auto startup of VMs such as sys-net, for the purpose of troubleshooting.

Add qubes.skip_autostart at the end of the line that in boot parameters that has rhgb quiet , you could access these boot parameters by pressing ‘e’ when you see grub options for few seconds directly before it prompts for disk encryption.
Press F10 after that to start the system.

Then check sys-net and look for logs If needed as you are able to login now.
If you are able to reach user login screen but cannot enter password inform me and i will try a different solution.

dom0 backup only save files in /home/your_user_name , it is highly unlikely to break the system, at worse it could modify the user interface.

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Adding qubes.skip_autostart worked for me.
Thank you.

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