Hm... I did read what you put in the other thread, it's weird that you machine suddently doesn't connect to the GamePad anymore. One person suggested that you have a IOSU brick, but I don't think that's the case if your machine was at least connecting before... unless your NAND maybe is dead, but I don't know if data corruption works like that.Yes, good suggestion, I'll ask on the other thread. I'm glad you were able to make progress on your device. I'm not sure how to get those logs unless I can bring up that recovery menu unless there's some other method.
In my case I just ended up disconnecting the U and putting away in it's box, I managed to manually install Tiramisu again by injecting it via wupserver and then modify the system.xml to boot it, my best result was to get vWii working again, but I did not get more progress than that.
According to Cafe OS my problem resides in the disc drive apparently, but it works perfectly fine in vWii so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Honestly, if I could restore my NAND backup via software I would definitely try it, I have one backup form 2020 and other from 2018.
Not an expert on this, but the Wii and Wii U system arquitecture share some similitaries afaik, I remember BootMii can restore a NAND via IOS... I think then it could be THEORICALLY possible to restore the Wii U NAND via IOSU using the recovery menu.
It was more dangerous than restoring it as boot2 though, but I think as long you don't have a power cut or something there shouldn't be any problem.