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Last night, when shutting down the laptop, there was a prompt to install updates and then poweroff so I did that. Next thing I know, when I boot my laptop, I get the grub rescue prompt. Here's what I know so far:

grub rescue> set

cmdpath=(hd0,gpt1)/EFI/ubuntu

prefix=(hd0,gpt3)/boot/grub

root=hd0,gpt3

I tried to do:

linux /boot/grub/vmlinuz-4.15.0-34-generic root=/dev/sda3

and I get:

Unknown command `linux'.

I've also tried to:

insmod /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/linux.mod

but I have not had any luck loading linux. I can't do normal.mod either, nor boot. I'm stuck here and need some help on how to boot so I can do grub-install. There's no other OS on the laptop and my home directory is in a different partition, for what its worth. Please help me recover my Ubuntu.

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  • what is the output of insmod /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/linux.mod?
    – j-money
    Sep 3, 2018 at 22:50
  • There is no output. It's as if it went through without problems. I still get Unknown command afterwards.
    – user285112
    Sep 4, 2018 at 5:46

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My problem has been resolved. I loaded a live USB session of Ubuntu 18.04 and installed the Boot Repair.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

Using the Recommended repair option reinstalled grub with the shim.

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