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
It looks like your /boot partition was on Mint partition
You can create a new /boot partition and then install your bootloader there
It’s not complicated
I don’t remember the exact steps on the top of my mind right now, but it’s something like
From a live USB (maybe it’s necessary to chroot)
- Create a new /boot partition
- Install grub on it
- Check if your bios is starting from this new efi file. If not, make your bios boot from your new efi file by selecting it manually
I think that’s it
it’d be a bit different on uefi though
the arch wiki on grub is really good
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Your problem may differ from mine, but whenever I’ve been greeted with the command line in grub the solution has actually been in bios. I’ll leave you with my notes, which are a bit snarky after spending a lot of time trying to figure out hot to repair grub, when the solution was 3 clicks in bios:
"Inspiron won’t boot
Goes to the grub command prompt
Don’t fuck with that thing
Restart, F2 to get into bios
Change boot sequence to start the SSD first, not ubuntu
Reboot, itll do it a couple times, but should boot right into normal grub"
I hope your solution is the same
Sadly not a boot order issue, every option is borked :/
You could try fixing grub from a live linux session. How to do the fixing is beyond my knowledge tho… Good luck!
Look out for a tutorial to install grub again.
