Can I invite you to a beer or something? You just saved my life. After the refind-install from chroot and a reboot, the system sent me into an emergency mode for some reason. I remembered that I had removed all the drives and my graphics card, so I put them all back into the machine, started it and everything works fine now.
The lesson I learned today was
when you bios update it wipes uefi nvram and this procedure should fix that.
A million thanks to you! I wish you all the best for 2026!