Re: [LUG] Lost setup

[mark@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On 20/06/2020 07:46, Neil wrote:

> On
>       19/06/2020 20:59, comrade meowski wrote:
>       
>       
> >         
> >         Well you're not going to like this but it's time to boot a live
> >         system, chroot into your install and fix up the bootloader then.
> >         
> >         
> >         Warning: I'm not at all convinced of your diagnosis.
> >         
> >         
> >         Some more information you'll have to harvest from a live boot
> >         system about your existing installation would be ideal.
> >         
> >         
> >         Check Secure Boot settings in the UEFI as well - disable it if
> >         it's back on for some reason.
> >         
> >         
> >         There are multiple ways to attack this - if your system has a
> >         EFI shell available (which it doesn't seem to) we could use that
> >         to manually load the operating system. You could also interrupt
> >         a live system early in boot and drop to it's grub prompt: we
> >         could then use that to correctly locate and then load the OS as
> >         well. Both are somewhat advanced and are going to be hellish to
> >         try and explain via a mailing list though.
> >         
> >         
> >         Full live boot and chroot are probably going to be the most
> >         intelligible to you but I'd be prepared for a hard slog, this
> >         isn't going to be pretty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> >         
> >         
> >       
>       Well, thanks for the encouragement. I have checked and secure boot
>       is off. The date shown in the BIOS is correct.
>       
>       
>       As I have said, I can run it from a live USB and can then read all
>       the files on the SSD.
>       
>       
>       I don't know what an EFI shell is, so will have a Google for it.
>       
>       
>       Could it be as simple as a loose connection?
>       
>       
>       Neil
>       
>       
>

(I did send this yesterday, but it seems to have got lost in the ether)

It might be worth just checking for a loose cable - I've had that before, causing intermittent problems on boot.

Massively frustrating for something so simple...

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Kind regards,

Mark Smith
juglugs.com

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