We are having a Hell of a time trying to boot up. Read all kinds of materials on re-installing Grub2 but each one presumes that we already know where Grub2 is located and/or that there is only one ext4 partition on our disk. Some say that Grub2 is on the partition where Ubuntu is installed but, since we formatted the drive and installed Ubuntu 17, they are all partitions where Ubuntu is located. Incredibly simple but, so far, not one of the 'helpers' has figured that out. I am 40 years out from the last programming I have done and really don't care to re-learn everything I have forgotten. One mentioned Grub2 is on the 'Linux' partition but, again, they are all Linux, and one said that it is an '83,' and as you can plainly see, two '83's. As well, sda5 is encrypted, so not sure how that affects possibly fixes. We have the password, of course.
As big a pain in the keister as Ubuntu has been so far, we really hate the very idea of using that spybot Windows, again.
Thank You, again, for your assistance.
After using Boot-Repair Please write on a paper the following URL: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/jTMR6n9tCZ/
In case you still experience boot problem, indicate this URL to: [email protected] or to your favorite support forum.
results of sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 298.1 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x558fe20e
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1499135 1497088 731M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1501182 625141759 623640578 297.4G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1501184 625141759 623640576 297.4G 83 Linux
Results of GParted
Size Used Unused Flags
dev/sda1 ext4 731.00 MiB 233.40 497.60 boot
dev/sda2 extended 297.38 GiB ---
dev/sda5 [Encrypted] 297.38 GiB 297.38 GiB 0.00
We apologize. I swear I answered your concerns two days ago, but it is not posted, so here they are:
I apologize for not including Ubuntu 17.10. There were/are only two devices
with operating systems attached to this computer: the broken Ubuntu 17 system
we are trying to repair, and the liveUSB Ubuntu 17.10 we are using to talk to
you. The rest are all storage/back-up only. We have the standard Ubuntu 17
installation which we have confirmed is GPT.
@oldfred: We have disconnect all other drives and run boot-repair, but have been unable to access the encrypted partition. Mount in Gparted is grayed out, and mount is not offered in Disks.
We have tried to mount the encrypted partition using:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cryptsetup --type luks open /dev/sda5 encrypted
Device /dev/sda5 doesn't exist or access denied.
{https://evilshit.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/how-to-mount-luks-encrypted-partitions-manually/}
and
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2/ crypthome
Device /dev/sda5/ doesn't exist or access denied.
{https://linuxconfig.org/basic-guide-to-encrypting-linux-partitions-with-luks}
grubdoesn't sit in just one location. Grub stage1 is located in the MBR (master boot record) or first sector of the drive (regardless of how many partitions the drive has; ie. there is only one MBR per drive). Later stages of grub (1.5, 2) reside in /boot which can be its own partition, or in your / partition. You can have many /boot partitions (one for each installed Ubuntu, GNU/Linux etc), but the only one that runs is the one pointed to by the MBR which is usually the last installed. If you have multiple drives, your BIOS will determine which MBR is used.