How to load the kernel

[sacred fox]

I was adjusting my partition,but the devices got switched off in the middle.i tried again after doing check in gparted and the size of the partition increased.
Now when i switch on without the live boot, it gives an error about loading kernal or smthing

[brittle shoal]

I'm afraid your partitions are no more.

[sacred fox]

🥲

[brittle shoal]

can you run fsck from the live usb?

[sacred fox]

K

[brittle shoal]

not sure if that'll do anything, but worth a try I guess

[brittle shoal]

this is your live usb?

[sacred fox]

Nop,the problem

Should i use compatible mode or not?

[brittle shoal]

be more specific. what is compatible mode?

[sacred fox]

One of the 2 options in live usb

[brittle shoal]

fsck /dev/[your drive and partition, so example sda2]

[brittle shoal]

that won't do anything. at most, you could try recovery from your installed system (in the grub menu under advanced options) but am not sure if there's anything useful in your case

[sacred fox]

Oh one min

[brittle shoal]

space.

[brittle shoal]

well that seems bad
can you open disks app and show me what you see?

[sacred fox]

first time seeing the loop device

[sacred fox]

this @brittle shoal

[brittle shoal]

that's your live system, no worry

[ivory hinge]

never seen such a cluttered partition layout before

[brittle shoal]

that's a horrendous layout.

well only things I can try of right now would be to rebuild initrd and boot-repair
@sacred fox can you boot to windows normally?

[sacred fox]

i havent tried after this problem

so like 10 min

my pc is slow

[ivory hinge]

repeat with sda8, and sda10 . use sudo everytime

[brittle shoal]

would just data partitions make you unable to boot? I guess he should also check the efi partition

[sacred fox]

sda 10 is taking time

sudo fsck /dev/sda10
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/sda10 primary superblock features different from backup, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure

still loading

[brittle shoal]

you might want to invest in an SSD drive. even 256gb

[sacred fox]

sudo fsck /dev/sda10
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/sda10 primary superblock features different from backup, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda10: 1199740/3276800 files (1.0% non-contiguous), 11452827/13107200 blocks

////////////////////////////////////////////
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
/dev/sda1: 237 files, 18651/65536 clusters
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda2
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block
fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
or
e2fsck -b 32768 <device>

mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda3
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda4
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda5
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/sda5: clean, 553932/8208000 files, 6985830/32768000 blocks
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda6
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda7
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda8
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
Games: clean, 35294/4924800 files, 7489430/19660800 blocks
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda9
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda9
Possibly non-existent device?

mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda10
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/sda10 primary superblock features different from backup, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda10: 1199740/3276800 files (1.0% non-contiguous), 11452827/13107200 blocks
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda11
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda11
Possibly non-existent device?
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda12
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda13
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda13
Possibly non-existent device?
mint@mint:~$

there is no 9 and 11 really

i was typing with the flow

[ivory hinge]

dont fsck anything but fat and ext4

[sacred fox]

ok

mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
/dev/sda1: 237 files, 18651/65536 clusters
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda10
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/sda10: clean, 1199740/3276800 files, 11452827/13107200 blocks
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda8
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
Games: clean, 35294/4924800 files, 7489430/19660800 blocks
mint@mint:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda5
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/sda5: clean, 553932/8208000 files, 6985830/32768000 blocks
mint@mint:~$

should i try to open windows?

[sacred fox]

done

[ivory hinge]

yes, and do a chkdsk for every drive letter

[sacred fox]

ok

[brittle shoal]

any progress?

[sacred fox]

Its checking D

Windows opens

[sacred fox]

I started with d since it only had 3 gb data, it is still not finished

[brittle shoal]

its doing something right?

[sacred fox]

yes

i think it will take a day or so for complete checking

[brittle shoal]

hmm

that's a lot for 3 gb.

you might want to run boot-repair from the live usb after this one is completed

otherwise, not sure if checking C will also do anything. you might have to reinstall

and if you decide to, ffs make your partitioning a bit better. don't create that many partitions. just keep windows C partition, and make a single root partition for Linux (or if you want seperate /home)

[sacred fox]

Its stuck in stage 4

No change for past 2 or 3 hrs

[brittle shoal]

i don't have any experience with chkdsk. you might want to ask this on a windows related server, and tell that your chkdsk has been running for this long.

or if you don't want to wait and don't mind having all your data wiped from that 3gb partition, just give it up

you can run boot-repair as last resort. if that doesn't work, regenerate initrd. if that doesn't work, wait until someone has a decent idea or just give up and reinstall.

[sacred fox]

Somthing happened

But

Eta is kinda problem

Its on recovery drive

[brittle shoal]

well, these things can take literal days

[sacred fox]

first time seeing less than 100 %use on my lap

[brittle shoal]

you can also use crystaldiskinfo while on windows
might say something nice

[sacred fox]

'crystaldiskinfo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

nvm installed

is it bad?

@brittle shoal

[sacred fox]

i will do c when going to sleep as it will probably take a long time

[brittle shoal]

i mean, its status is caution, but it doesn't seem like it's failed already

but I would replace it when you can

it'll probably fail sooner or later

get a 256gb sata if you really can't spare more money, but even 1tb ones are fairly cheap nowadays

and according to some nerd
"multiple read errors, LOTS of seek errors (0x2b = 43 so far), lots of uncorrectable errors (0x2a1 = 673), shitton of command timeouts (0x60014 = 393236) and it was used a lot"
he's saying it's cooked

[sacred fox]

rest

[ivory hinge]

u dont need to do a surface scan with /r.. just log to c drive in admin-command prompt (eg. type c: n enter) then just do chkdsk /f

surface scan takes hours or days

[sacred fox]

so just chkdsk /f, not chkdsk C: /f

[ivory hinge]

u log to c first

[sacred fox]

C:\WINDOWS\System32>

[ivory hinge]

yeah

ur already on that disk now

then just do chkdsk /f

[sacred fox]

ok

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) y

This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts.

[brittle shoal]

it basically means itll check when you reboot

[brittle shoal]

@sacred fox any progress?

[sacred fox]

Restarted normally, windows is working fine

[sacred fox]

.

I need to try to recover data i guess

[sacred fox]

Uhm, will the sda name of the home folder change?

Looking through advanced linux option

[brittle shoal]

aha. that's a nice screen.

I believe you should just regenerate initrd

@sacred fox did you have this error before?

you need prepare a Linux mint usb drive

[sacred fox]

i was looking through the advanced options (the second one while booting)

[sacred fox]

how to do that

[sacred fox]

i have it

[ivory hinge]

if you don't mind to reinstall it, it's faster

[brittle shoal]

mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
sudo chroot /mnt (you now use your system from the live usb)
update-initramfs -u (I'm pretty sure that's the correct command and will do it correctly, if not then someone please correct me)

then you can reboot
boot mint thru advanced options
if it doesn't work, then boot to the usb drive and run boot-repair, and then do recommended repair. If that doesn't work, you can press e when you have the advanced option that got you to the init error before (or if boot-repair fixes it, the default option) selected, and send the contents of it here)

[sacred fox]

Sudo chroot/mnt gives no directory/bin /bash

[ivory hinge]

try again but add final slash>> mount /dev/sda5 /mnt

mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/

if that doesn't work, make a temporary mounting directory in the live environment:
sudo mkdir /mnt/rootsystem

then mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/rootsystem

then sudo mkdir /mnt/bootpart

then mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/bootpart

then sudo chroot /mnt/rootsystem

[sacred fox]

sudo chroot /mnt/rootsystem
chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory

@ivory hinge

uhm, should i try reinstall>

?

[ivory hinge]

wait

did u make the folder first?

ls /mnt

[sacred fox]

yes

mint@mint:~$ ls /mnt
bin boot-sav lib lib64 lost+found opt rootsystem swapfile
boot bootpart lib32 libx32 mnt root sbin

[ivory hinge]

hmmm

[ivory hinge]

if you have any data on sda5 you need, back it up now, then just reinstall

[sacred fox]

how to backup if i cant open it?

idont think there is imp things in it

[ivory hinge]

U can enter it in live system using file manager

check thru its home folder

either upload to dropbox/OneDrive or to second usb drive or memory card

[brittle shoal]

chroot /mnt/rootsystem /bin/bash

[sacred fox]

mint@mint:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/rootsystem /bin/bash
chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory

[brittle shoal]

can you try to cd to /mnt/rootsystem/bin

then
ls
and look for bash

[sacred fox]

showing no directory again

[brittle shoal]

wdym?

[sacred fox]

what should be my bootloader installation device?

[sacred fox]

d /mnt/rootsystem/bin
bash: cd: /mnt/rootsystem/bin: No such file or directory

[brittle shoal]

can you ls /mnt/rootsystem?

[ivory hinge]

sda1

[sacred fox]

isnt it windows?

[brittle shoal]

I might interrupt but wouldn't it be just /dev/sda?

[ivory hinge]

grub efi can coexist with winboot efi

[ivory hinge]

that's for legacy BIOS mode

[brittle shoal]

oh I guess. but it still should install It properly by default

[ivory hinge]

meh . better to specify the ESP explicitly if setting up a UEFI-run dualboot

[brittle shoal]

and please clean up the partitioning scheme. you only need 1 ext4 partition. and never make ext2/3 ones

[brittle shoal]

did you create a root partition?

[ivory hinge]

find the partition u want linux to install on

then click on 'change' button

set "use as" to ext4 journalling filesystem, and set mountpoint to /

for sda1 click change button, use as ESP make sure format box is not marked

find home partition u want to use for linux personal home files, then click change button

set as ext4, and mountpoint as /home

show final layout before continuing, and try to stretch window big

[sacred fox]

this is sda5 where my origibnal data was there right?

[ivory hinge]

i think so.

[sacred fox]

uhm i think i will share screenshot of eaxh step

[ivory hinge]

according to this, it looks like u had main linux on sda5

[sacred fox]

it said ubiman failed

[ivory hinge]

turn off fast startup in Windows

[sacred fox]

ok

it sgonna take a while

[ivory hinge]

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[ivory hinge]

I hope you followed through with the last post in that chat link I gave, now should be good to go.

[ivory hinge]

any news, @sacred fox ?

[sacred fox]

Wil be informing soon

[sacred fox]

This will delete the data in the partition?
If yes, i would like to rearrange my partition

[ivory hinge]

you can do that ahead of running the installer, using the gparted program. it is wise to backup any very important data to an external drive before you do that operation.

[sacred fox]

So should i copy the whole sda?

[ivory hinge]

naj

just what you need

from both Windows User folder and/or current linux installation's home folder

[ivory hinge]

did you fix the original issue yet?

#1268241176230760508 message

follow that ticket exactly from beginning to end if you want to have a simple and easy dual-OS setup on one drive.