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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by merthyr1831@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

The title explains it well. But I installed Mint on a 2nd partition, then deleted it since I no longer used it, and now Grub dumps me to the command line on boot :/

How do I recover?

EDIT: gonna give up. Fuck grub lmao EDIT2: Just reinstalled mint and used the grub it gives to fix everything lmfao

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[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I ran it without the --removable flag :)

Spamming f12 for the uefi boot menu, I have 3 options (neon, ubuntu, and ubuntu) but all 3 spit me out onto the grub console

[-] 12510198 1 points 9 months ago

Alright, could you see what the root variable is in the grub console before manually setting it by running echo $root, and if it prints anything, could you run ls / in the grub console and see if you see like home dev etc, or the directories you would expect to see in / inside linux, and if you do see anything, could you run ls /boot/grub/ and see if you see grub.cfg. But if you are already inside linux, go ahead and install grub with --removable, it wont overwrite your current installation. I dont want you to format the efi partition, incase something goes wrong and you wont be able to boot into linux at all

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

So echo $root returns (hd0,gpt1). I have to set it to hd0,gpt2 to get the boot/linux dirs. I'll try --removable and get back to ya

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Eh, it gives me a grub-like menu but selecting any option just dumps me back into the console.

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