Questions tagged [grubrescue]

Questions about using the grub rescue prompt or how to get rid of it.

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grub rescue error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found [duplicate]

I get the following error: My system specs are: HP 245 G6 Notebook PC OS: Ubuntu 18.04 + Kali Linux The error happened after I tried to edit the partitions for Kali Linux. Both partitions have an ...
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After update, get "error: file not found." followed by "grub rescue> _"

I just installed quite a lot of 12.10 updates, was prompted to reboot, and then found that I couldn't boot.
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location of new kernel for rescuing grub?

while changing the colour for the boot splash screen, i could not reboot back into GDM. in the grub command line, i tried to mount the sda for repair but it says mount point does not exist. i also ...
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Interrupted Ubuntu installation and deleted(?) GRUB

I have made an attempt to install Ubuntu 18.10, overwriting existing Ubuntu 15.10. There is also Windows 7 on this PC. The installation taken very long (around 6h) and did not complete. During it the ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 had been working well for over a year. After a standard update, re-boot freezes on purple screen

Ubuntu 16.04 had been working well for over a year. Then, after a standard software update, as it was very slow I shut down and tried to re-boot. I was led first to the blank purple screen. ...
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Fix Grub: No such device found

I Dual booted Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my pc, using two different drives. I deleted and reformatted the ubuntu partition. Now when I start my computer, it pulls up Grub saying there is no such device. ...
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Grub rescue after converting primary partitions into logical partitions

I have a dual boot system (Ubuntu 18.04 & Windows 10) with 4 primary partitions - the system reserved partition (boot), the windows partition, the ubuntu partition (has /boot, /root, /home, etc) ...
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Laptop booting to GRUB shell

I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop, dual booting with Windows, with GRUB as the boot manager. Earlier today, I booted into Windows and shrunk the Windows partition. After attempting to reboot ...
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stuck at grub rescue

I was trying to have dual boot windows10 and ubuntu 18.4, something goes wrong and I have deleted the ubuntu partition, and now stucked at grub rescue after first reboot, all the filesystem showing ...
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boot error - can't find i386-pcnormal.mod

I have very little knowledge, please be patient, I'm trying. After trying to increase a partition to update Ubuntu, my PC restarted into grub rescue. I tried the "set boot" situation, but it can't ...
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How to boot other operating systems from GRUB rescue mode?

I want to uninstall Ubuntu 16.04 completely from my PC. When I deleted the partition, this problem occurred when I botted again.
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How to fix the following grub error ?

I am getting a huge problem, I installed Ubuntu only 10/12 days before. Today , when I ran my PC, it shows a black screen just like CMD . and here are the messages : error:file'grub/i386-pc/normal....
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how to uninstall ubuntu 18.04 in dell n5110 and install windows [duplicate]

how to uninstall ubuntu 18.04 in dell n5110 and install windows back http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/MV7BFccGzw/
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Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS GRUB prompt on boot

Background: I have been running Ubuntu MATE for a little over a year. I originally installed 16.04 LTS and then this year upgraded to 18.04 LTS, without any problems. Everything was great. Issue: I ...
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Grub rescue - error: unknown filesystem (all deviations are broken)

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 in virtual box and my OS is Win10. When I boot, I am getting: error: unknown filesystem. grub rescue> I search for solutions and found I need to find my Ubuntu is on ...
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Grub rescue after removing Ubuntu partition

I removed the Ubuntu partition (Windows 10 dual-booting) and after restarting my computer, I have been stucked in grub rescue. I understood that my grub is installed in MBR and I should to recover the ...
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I deleted my Ubuntu 17.10 partition, and now I can't boot into anything

I deleted my Ubuntu partition, thinking that would delete Ubuntu off of my PC, but now I can't do anything on it. Now, whenever I turn on my PC, I go straight into a command line which says: error: ...
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Grub rescue show up after installing Ubuntu 18.04

I just installed on my PC Ubuntu 18.04, I previously had Windows 10 installed on sda1, so I created a new primary ext4 partition on sda4 and installed Ubuntu root on sda4. After installing, I ...
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When I start my PC, it shows grub rescue

By mistake, I deleted one disk drive to open up space. Now, when I start my PC it shows grub rescue error : unknown file system, entering rescue mode, grub rescue (https://i.stack.imgur.com/OKd7y....
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How to edit GRUB after POST for text only console mode?

How do I edit the GRUB boot sequence from: linux /boot/vmlinuz... quiet splash so that it boots to the console? I've tried removing "quiet" and "splash", as well as adding "text". I can also boot ...
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boot hangs at different points

Not sure how or why, but was able to boot after n'th time. I updated /etc/default/grub to remove "quiet" and "splash" and then ran sudo update-grub and reboot. Boot hangs on: Starting Network ...
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grub: couldn't find a necessary member device of multi-device file system (Ubuntu, zfs on root)

I use a script to deploy "ZFS on root" on Ubuntu16.04. It configures multiple disks as raidz, raidz2, raidz3 or mirror. While this script has always worked in the past, it seems to be running into ...
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Impossible to boot Ubuntu - normal.mod missing [duplicate]

I am trying to reinstall Ubuntu (tried 12.04 to 17.10) but I always get the error error: file /boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found then drops me into grub rescue. I have installed using USB (...
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Error: No such partition when trying to boot Windows

I get the error no such partition, entering grub rescue, after restarting my computer. I have a pen drive with an Ubuntu ISO image, so I booted from it. On opening the file manger there, I found ...
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Grub menu not opening

Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems: -Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) -Check rootdelays= (did the system wait long enough?) -Missing modules (cat /proc/modules: ls /dev) ALERT! ...
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Xubuntu VM broken after power loss on host (Windows) machine. Stuck at GNU GRUB

I was working on my Windows PC with Xubuntu 17 running in a virtual machine (VMware Workstation) when there was a very sudden power loss. The Windows host machine booted back up normally, but now the ...
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hd0 not found, ubuntu installed

I tried to dual boot Win7/Ubuntu, but the installer wouldn't recognize the free space on my hard drive, so I followed the advice of erasing RAID metadata with the command dmraid -E -r /dev/sda and ...
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Deleted Linux partition and upgraded to windows 10.... Now stuck at grub rescue [duplicate]

I had a Ubuntu partition and windows 7 partition after installing windows 10 I accidentally deleted my Ubuntu partition, now I'm stuck at grub rescue. I saw a YouTube tutorial and did the steps like ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 install on SD card giving boot error: no such device. grub rescue>

I managed to install Ubuntu 16.04.2 on a 32gb SD card plugged into an Asus x205ta. I made three partitions- one mounted at /, one mounted at /home, and swap space. When I try to boot, I get Error: No ...
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Grub rescue fails with "Boot Repair" with error "unknown file system" [duplicate]

After a system crash (which was caused by a hard restart), my Ubuntu linux is not booting, it is showing now: error: uknown filesystem grub rescue> Solutions that I tried: grub rescue>ls (hd0)...
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Grub Rescue: Format Entire Harddrive [duplicate]

I am really getting frustrated trying to solve the grub rescue prompt. I understand that I deleted the partition that Ubuntu was on, and therefore, I deleted the config files for grub--causing the ...
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error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/boot.mod' not found. On Ubuntu 16.04

I'm getting this error over Ubuntu 16.04 on startup.im not able to start my pc. Any help would be appreciated.
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error: no such device grub rescue Windows 7 [duplicate]

I have a hard drive with Windows 7 installed on and I wanted to install Ubuntu 12.04 onto an external hard drive. So I made a LiveUSB with Ubuntu 12.04 on and installed it to the external hard drive. ...
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GRUB Recovery (How can I recover) the Boot repair failed ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS?

I am unable to recover my GRUB. http://paste.ubuntu.com/26452063/
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Grub rescue problem

My computer won't start. All that happens is: booting in insecure mode Failed to open EFI/Ubuntu\Momangen.efi - not found Failed to load image EFI/Ubuntu\Momangen.efi : not found Error: secure boot ...
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How to solve open ubuntu in grub

Si alguien puede decirme como resuelvo esto.... If someone can tell me how I solve this .... Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. ...
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Grub rescue doesn't allow me to boot from LIVE CD/USB

I used to have Windows Vista & Ubuntu 12.04 on dual boot. Accidentally, I deleted the Linux partition and landed on Grub rescue on the next boot. The tricky thing for me here is I have been trying ...
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Bug:173414. Dual boot with Win 10 - How

I have a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 10 that dual boots with Windows 10 in UEFI mode and Ubuntu in legacy mode. On boot up I get the GRUB rescue screen, but fortunately I found that by pressing Fn+12 I get a ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 not shut down or restart my computer from the "Try Ubuntu" option

About a few weeks ago I tried to install Ubuntu 17.10 alongside with Windows (64bit, UEFI secure boot enabled) in my laptop and there was this "grub rescue" problem after the installation, where I ...
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After deleting Ubuntu partition I get grub rescue> and can't boot Windows [duplicate]

I was using two operating systems at my computer. Window 7 in partition (C:) and Ubuntu in partition (D:). I didn't need Ubuntu any more so I formated partition (D:) from Windows 7. Then I restarted ...
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Windows 10 Boot Grub Boot Error (unknown filesystem)

First off, I did my research and I dug around and I could not find this solution anywhere. I recently installed Linux as a dual boot onto my HP Omen Laptop, after the installation, I restarted and I ...
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Accidentally messed up my filesystem wtih mv - Grub Rescue>

Let's start with saying that I'm a very inexperienced not-so-poweruser. Last night I was trying to move every file in a directory to another location, but accidentally did this: mv stuff /* /home/...
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filesystem is unknown

I have a formated HDD in my acer notebook--fat32 I want to install Ubuntu from my USB stick but it doesn't want to boot from stick, also i can't see the USB stick in BIOS but my HDD is formated so i ...
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Windows 10 update messed up grub

I am using a dual boot laptop with 14.10 and Windows 10. After Windows update, first reboot got me to grub rescue> prompt. I have checked previous posts how to force boot into Linux. In all those ...
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Tried to re-install Ubuntu, Ubuntu and Windows 10 failing to load. Grub Rescue screen [duplicate]

I had Windows 10 (which I use primarily) on one drive of my computer and Ubuntu 16.04 on another drive. I updated Ubuntu to 17.10, but it would crash shortly after starting up. Now, what I did next ...
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Repairing Grub not possible: stuck in grub rescue> error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found

I cloned my data to new hard disk named sda1 and then tried to repair grub by following the commands of website (https://www.howtogeek.com/114884/how-to-repair-grub2-when-ubuntu-wont-boot/) and I got ...
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How to exit from GRUB

I press the shift key to enter GRUB while booting and I changed my password. How can I exit GRUB to continue booting?
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Permanently fix absolute location of the GRUB folder

I recently hit a relatively common problem when the 16.04 installer misconfigures the location of the GRUB folder. In such cases the system boots into a rescue shell with the following messages: ...
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In Grub Rescue, boot folder is missing

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS on a virtual machine. I am getting following error whenever I power on VMware instance where Ubuntu is installed. error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not ...
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Ubuntu GRUB RESCUE mode - screwed up partitions - attempted t look for boot folder with no luck

So, I'm a beginner programmer and I was going a bit into depth in Android programming, so because of what I wanted to do, Ubuntu was my best option which I installed alongside with Windows 10. It was ...

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