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zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 10:48 AM

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Pls help pls pls pls

distant locust May 4, 2025, 11:28 AM

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Could you please provide more information regarding your query?

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 12:06 PM

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distant locust Could you please provide more information regarding your query?

Today when I restarted my laptop to boot into Windows(I hadn't booted into it for a long time) I couldn't so I tried boot-repair (via Ventoy USB with mint-lmde .iso in it) it didn't work so I tried using Windows PE iso in Ventoy USB to repair it then I can't boot into LMDE so I tried boot-repair again and get to this situation

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 1:46 PM

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So you can't boot into any OS-es?

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@zinc sorrel

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:06 PM

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cloud gale So you can't boot into any OS-es?

Yes from when I tried boot-repair from ventoy mint iso

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:08 PM

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And you had lmde installed on the harddisk?

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:09 PM

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Yes

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:09 PM

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cloud gale And you had lmde installed on the harddisk?

I had it dual booted with windows 10(lite version)

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:10 PM

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Do you have lmde iso on the ventoy disk?

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:10 PM

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Yes

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:13 PM

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cloud gale Do you have lmde iso on the ventoy disk?

That how i use boot-repair

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:14 PM

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Ok. Boot from the LMDE iso again and use the boot repair, with the recommended repair.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:14 PM

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Ok

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:14 PM

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Add a picture with the error you are getting on the process.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:16 PM

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Ok

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zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:18 PM

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cloud gale Add a picture with the error you are getting on the process.

This error?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:19 PM

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Open the software sources app. Do you have internet access?

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:22 PM

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cloud gale Open the software sources app. Do you have internet access?

Yes, i do

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:22 PM

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Ok. Open the software sources app.What does it list?

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:23 PM

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cloud gale Open the software sources app. Do you have internet access?

Isn't this software sources of the live boot?

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Ok i just press ok and it finish repairing

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:26 PM

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It finished repairing?

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Now you see a grub menu with a list of OS to boot from?

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:26 PM

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Yes

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cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:26 PM

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Great. Reboot and see what it does.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:27 PM

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cloud gale Now you see a grub menu with a list of OS to boot from?

Reboot to see it?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:27 PM

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Yes.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:27 PM

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cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:28 PM

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Hmm. I guess, boot again, and use the recommended repair again.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:28 PM

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Ok

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:29 PM

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First open software sources app to make sure you have the main repo enabled, and then run the boot repair.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:30 PM

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cloud gale First open software sources app to make sure you have the main repo enabled, and...

The sources of the live session?

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How to enable the main repo?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:36 PM

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zinc sorrel The sources of the live session?

Yes.

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It is already enabled but it detects it as disabled.

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Maybe just fire up a terminal and do sudo apt update.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:37 PM

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Ok

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Done

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:37 PM

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Then do the boot repair again.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:38 PM

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cloud gale Then do the boot repair again.

Recommended repair?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:40 PM

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Yes.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:41 PM

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cloud gale Then do the boot repair again.

Ok and continue?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:42 PM

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Hmm. That seems to be a bug in the boot repair....

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`cd /etc/apt/sources<tab>(not sure the full path).

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:44 PM

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cloud gale `cd /etc/apt/sources<tab>(not sure the full path).

Wait it said the software sources of LMDE(sda6)?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:44 PM

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Ah.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:44 PM

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So change one of the lmde in sda6?

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How?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:45 PM

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I will come back in 15 minutes.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:46 PM

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Ok

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:46 PM

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I guess you need to mount /dev/sda6 and add/edit the sources.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:46 PM

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Ol

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Ok

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cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:52 PM

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Run cat /proc/partitions

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:52 PM

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cloud gale May 4, 2025, 2:53 PM

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Open the disks app then.

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Or gparted.

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Or run blkid in terminal.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 2:54 PM

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I can say that how I organize my partition at the installation could be a mess

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:00 PM

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mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/a
nano /mnt/a/etc/apt/sources.list```

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Let's how they look.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:00 PM

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Ok

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What?

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I think something went wrong...?

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:09 PM

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cloud gale ```mkdir -p /mnt/a mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/a nano /mnt/a/etc/apt/sources.list```

Maybe change something?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:18 PM

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It should be correct.

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Please share the output of blkid in terminal.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:19 PM

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zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:19 PM

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cloud gale Please share the output of `blkid` in terminal.

Here

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:26 PM

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Share the output of df -h command please.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:26 PM

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cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:27 PM

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sudo nano /mnt/etc/apt/sources.list

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Seems the boot repair already mounted the partition.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:28 PM

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cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:29 PM

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Seems to be active. Some strange error it seems. Loll.

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Try boot repair again.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:30 PM

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Press ok?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:30 PM

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Press OK.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:32 PM

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zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:32 PM

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cloud gale Press OK.

An error?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:33 PM

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Ok. Now open gparted.

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On /dev/sda disk we need to add the BIOS boot flag.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:34 PM

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zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:35 PM

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cloud gale On /dev/sda disk we need to add the BIOS boot flag.

How?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:35 PM

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On the /dev/sda5 partition, right click, manage flags.

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And check the bios boot flag.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:36 PM

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The bios?

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I didn't see it

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:37 PM

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Check both bls_boot and boot.

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:37 PM

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Ok

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What now?

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 3:37 PM

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Try to restart and boot from your hard disk

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Worked?

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:47 PM

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Sorry i go to the toilet for a moment

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:48 PM

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cloud gale Try to restart and boot from your hard disk

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It didn't work?

zinc sorrel May 4, 2025, 3:49 PM

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cloud gale Try to restart and boot from your hard disk

Maybe we continue to fix it at 14:50~16:00 utc+7 tomorrow

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I have to sleep now

cloud gale May 4, 2025, 4:08 PM

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Ok. So strange issue. I will look on it.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:00 AM

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cloud gale Ok. So strange issue. I will look on it.

I have free time now, can you continue?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:03 AM

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The only thing I think you can do is to chroot and to upgrade the grub config manually. I will give you some steps.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:03 AM

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Oo

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Ok

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Or we manually boot it using the bash command line in grub?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:05 AM

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Boot from the USB stick, open the terminal and switch to root:

mkdir /mnt
mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/boot/efi
mount --rbind /dev /mnt/dev
mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys
mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc

chroot /mnt
grub-install /dev/sda
update-grub
exit

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:06 AM

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Ok

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:06 AM

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Then reboot and see if it it can reboot correctly.

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:06 AM

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zinc sorrel Or we manually boot it using the bash command line in grub?

From the live usb.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:06 AM

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Ok

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Wait what?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:07 AM

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Switch to root first

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If it exist is better.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:08 AM

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So just skip?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:08 AM

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Yeah

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:08 AM

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cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:09 AM

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Skip it. Mount the filesystems.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:09 AM

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cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:09 AM

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mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi

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then mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/boot/efi

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:12 AM

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Add /dev/sda?

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@cloud gale Right?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:17 AM

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No.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:17 AM

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Oh my house lose electricity

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:17 AM

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ls -la /boot/grub

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:18 AM

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Wait I will do it later, without electricity my lap can not work

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:20 AM

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One question, have you played with grub customizer or something like this before this problem?

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:21 AM

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cloud gale One question, have you played with grub customizer or something like this before...

Yes, I did

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:21 AM

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The font seems to be missing.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:21 AM

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But those customizers didn't work at all

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So I just leave it alone and it still works

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:22 AM

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Yeah, they break the system if you are not carefull with them.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:22 AM

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Idk that

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And I also wonder why I can't boot into Windows after a long time didn't use it

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:39 AM

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cloud gale Yeah, they break the system if you are not carefull with them.

The electricity come back

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Do all of those again?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:42 AM

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Yes.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:43 AM

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Ok

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:43 AM

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Because grub update failed to regenerate the configs.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:43 AM

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cloud gale Because grub update failed to regenerate the configs.

So what I need to do?

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cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:57 AM

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now cat /etc/default/grub

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 10:58 AM

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zinc sorrel

We need to finish regenerating the config.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:58 AM

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Did

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 10:59 AM

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cloud gale We need to finish regenerating the config.

How?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:00 AM

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We need to fix that font path and regenerate the config update-grub command which failed earlier

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is there a directory /etc/default/grub.d or something?

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:00 AM

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Yes

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cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:01 AM

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cd /etc/default/grub.d

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then cat each file in there.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:02 AM

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cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:10 AM

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Ok. Into 60_mint-theme.cfg, comment the line with GRUB_FONT, and add under it, GRUB_FONT="/boot/grub/unicode.pf2".

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You can save a backup of it. cp 60_mint-theme.cfg 60_mint-theme.cfg.bk, and edit it after.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:11 AM

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Like this?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:11 AM

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zinc sorrel Like this?

yes

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Also can you cat /etc/grub/themes/linuxmint/theme.txt?

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After you save the current file.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:14 AM

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I think it's the wrong path…

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:16 AM

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ls /etc/grub/themes

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:17 AM

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cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:20 AM

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zinc sorrel Like this?

Get back to this file and comment GRUB_THEME line.

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cd /etc/default/grub.d.

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Sorry.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:21 AM

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cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:21 AM

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cloud gale Also can you `cat /etc/grub/themes/linuxmint/theme.txt`?

It should be /boot/grub/themes/linuxmint/theme.txt

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:22 AM

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Change it path?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:22 AM

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zinc sorrel

Leave the file with the theme uncommented, as it was before. Sorry, listed a wrong path.

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:23 AM

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cloud gale It should be `/boot/grub/themes/linuxmint/theme.txt`

can you cat it?

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:24 AM

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No?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:24 AM

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Is there or not?

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:24 AM

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Wait

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I type cd and it gets me out of the dev/sda6

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:27 AM

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cloud gale Is there or not?

I think it's not there

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:28 AM

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Ok, go back to /etc/default/grub.d and comment the GRUB_THEME line.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:28 AM

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Ok

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:29 AM

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Seems good. Save and exit.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:29 AM

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Did

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:29 AM

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Run update-grub now

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:30 AM

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Did

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Ok it finish

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Wait no LMDE?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:30 AM

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Now exit, reboot and boot from your USB.

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:31 AM

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zinc sorrel Wait no LMDE?

What?

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:31 AM

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cloud gale What?

I don't see found LMDE

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:31 AM

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Can boot into windows?

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:32 AM

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Let me try

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:32 AM

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Can you show the menu?

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:32 AM

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Ok

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cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:33 AM

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Interesting. It seems it detected windows but not linux.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:33 AM

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Ok after it tries to boot into Windows the screen literally goes blank

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:33 AM

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Is your uefi drive on other partition for mint?

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:33 AM

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cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:33 AM

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Oh... not good.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:33 AM

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cloud gale Is your uefi drive on other partition for mint?

my lap uses legacy bios?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:34 AM

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Ok, but why were the themes and everything missing. Hmm...

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Do you have a timeshift snapshot from before messing with the grub?

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:35 AM

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cloud gale Do you have a timeshift snapshot from before messing with the grub?

Idk what is timeshift

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:36 AM

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https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/timeshift

Linux Mint - Community

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:36 AM

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I don't really think I have one

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:36 AM

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I think at this point the only think left to do is to reinstall linux.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:36 AM

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Wait use os-probe?

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I think it can help?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:37 AM

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OS prober is a feature that looks on the drives for other operating systems and adds them to the boot menu.

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But it run when it added the windows menu entry.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:38 AM

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I think I can use it and try to fix windows after

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:38 AM

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So that was not the problem. The problem seems to be that grub is messed so bad that it can't regenerate or detect menu entries.

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My advice is to reinstall linux and see how it goes.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:40 AM

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cloud gale My advice is to reinstall linux and see how it goes.

How? I don't really want to lose all my data

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It did find?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:41 AM

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You can save your data to an external drive or USB drive and then reinstall.

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Hmm. So all of it is installed on /dev/sda6.

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:43 AM

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cloud gale Boot from the USB stick, open the terminal and switch to root: ``` mkdir /mnt mo...

Do this again but without mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/boot/efi.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 11:43 AM

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Like after 40 min

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I have to eat dinner now

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 11:44 AM

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Ok. When you can then.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 1:02 PM

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cloud gale Ok. When you can then.

Can you continue now?

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 1:25 PM

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I can now.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 1:25 PM

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Ok

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 1:25 PM

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cloud gale Do this again but without `mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/boot/efi`.

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zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 1:25 PM

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Ok

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zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 1:26 PM

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cloud gale .

It run into an error

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 1:27 PM

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zinc sorrel It run into an error

Do not mount /dev/sda5. Continue without.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 1:28 PM

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Oh

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Still not found lmde

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 1:31 PM

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Yeah. Just save your files and reinstall.

distant locust May 5, 2025, 1:34 PM

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I'm so sorry it has gone to this point.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 1:34 PM

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distant locust I'm so sorry it has gone to this point.

Have to reinstall?

distant locust May 5, 2025, 1:34 PM

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Yeah

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 1:35 PM

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Unfortunately yes.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 1:35 PM

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Any chance of using grub-probe or os-prober?

distant locust May 5, 2025, 1:36 PM

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Please save your time buddy. You two have been on this for a day or so.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 1:36 PM

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Ol

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Ok

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 1:54 PM

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distant locust Please save your time buddy. You two have been on this for a day or so.

Maybe i will try to completely remove grub and uninstall it later

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I dont really want to reinstall lmde

cloud gale May 5, 2025, 2:04 PM

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You can do something else. Boot from usb stick, chroot as you did earlier and run a sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade.

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Maybe it will fix itself.

zinc sorrel May 5, 2025, 2:04 PM

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Ok

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But for now i will try to repair windows first

#Can boot into LMDE after boot-repair and can't boot into windows 10 after long time not boot into