I now see this when i boot up. I just restarted my pc and now i get this.
You’ve got some schmutz on your screen.
Those might be tears.
Are you alright joel?
How to i @ someone lmao
@liforra@endlesstalk.org
Welcome, this is the Linux user equivalent of popping your cherry.
You have a few options, but the easiest is to just use a rescue thing like Rescatux on a USB drive that automates most of the process. If you haven’t the means of flashing a USB drive (like another computer) but still have your linux installation USB drive, most distros offer a “rescue existing install” option somewhere in their installer/liveUSB. But you’ll have to search around.
Same thing happened to my windiws oc way back in 2002. Hdd crash wrecked its boot loader
Your system is fucked, that’s what happened.
More specifically, it cannot find the config file (/boot/grub/grub.cfg) it uses to load the menu & stuff to boot.
Usually it means one (or more) of:
- the grub.cfg got moved/deleted
- grub directory got moved/deleted
- /boot directory got moved/deleted
- boot partition failed to load
It isn’t booting a kernel, you’re in the bootloader.
How do i get it to load the kernal
It depends, is this a new install? Did you just update something?
Sheer hope, and a warrior’s bravery
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
If that doesn’t help boot with a live-cd or rescue, and check that your grub config points to a valid kernel.
Your hdd might be the culprit but it’s very hard to say from that screen. Maybe the one previously that can show your boot command
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
Witchcraft!! They’re speaking in tongues, get them!!
Some good tips on this thread, saved for later.
You broke grub
Achievement unlocked.
If you can fix it you unlock another one. If you manage to boot the system without using a rescue USB pen you unlock another one.
Eventually Linus himself will come and personally re-write your cfg file for you
Once level up enough you’ll be writing a GRUB replacement yourself. Now that would be a massive achievement.
Is that the platinum trophy?
Elements can’t define achivement levels because you have so much achivements in linux but only 118 elements
I raise you “what happened to my bus ?”
Burn a live Linux system onto a USB (can be one with just a terminal, like Arch Linux). If you don’t have another computer to plug the USB into, this can be done on an Android phone using EtchDroid.
Then, boot from that USB and mount your main filesystem. Inside of the Live system, chroot into the mounted filesystem and run
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
which should fix the bootloader.After that, you can just exit the USB system and return back to your OS which should boot now.
(If you don’t know how to mount a filesystem or chroot, I would explain but I forgot how to do it. If someone else could explain that would be neat)
Can you give a little more background info? What distro are you using, are you dual booting, is it a new install, did you make changes to your kernel, your partitions or grub before that?
While it’s clear that grub couldn’t find a kernel to boot, we need these Infos to help you find a solution.
Im using kde I did not even use my pc the last few days I came home it froze and when i rebooted i got this I do NOT have any duel boot
Well - the screen seems to indicate that it might wanna duel you anyway
You may want to replace the disk on that computer after you fix your boot. (As people said, with a recovery drive, probably the same one you use to install.)
After your computer is back, get a SMART client (like smartmontools) and check your disk status.
So new hdd time
Probably, yeah. Depends on a few other things (drive age, SMART test results, how risk-averse you are…)
But at least it’s worth thinking about.
Could also be a bad update that broke grub, the smart data will show if your drive is dying
I think I remember that a non geek friend of mine had good luck with this for fixing their Grub : https://www.supergrubdisk.org
Another option : https://www.system-rescue.org/disk-partitioning/Repairing-a-damaged-Grub/
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Pretty unhelpful responses so far. Enter
exit
to exit the current screen and return to a selection of installed OS/Kernels. You should be able to boot normally from there on. Once logged in, try
update-grub
which should repair your bootloader config.
Note: If
update-grub
isn’t present, it’s fine as it’s basically just a short script forgrub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
@joel_feila Super Grub2 Disk
https://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/
Rescatux
https://www.supergrubdisk.org/rescatux/
build a rescue stick
https://pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/deleted by creator
Memdisk proc hd0 hd1 hd1gpt1 hdgpt2 hdgpt3
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Solar eclipse clearly.
Solar eclipse-caused bit flip.
Related. I actually thought it was a sun related thing, like a solar flare, in the comic. Turns out it was butterflies.