I have been using LMDE4 64 bit for some time. It has stopped booting (I am not sure what happened). I get either the grub prompt or a message that says it is a non-system disk. I have tried booting 1) normally (UEFI) and 2) selecting the SSD from the boot options when I start up. I booted the machine using a live USB stick and ran the boot-repair GUI tool (which is on the live USB menu). It still does not boot.
I have read the Mint documentation and searched the forums but haven't found anything that seems on point. I am willing to have someone point either to the a relevant forum post or to somewhere else in the documentation for things I have missed. Or just tell me the quickest way to go. If it helps, I have some daily and boot Timeshift files on a separate drive.
I have attached a text file with the system info. I also have another text file that was produced by the boot-repair tool. I did not attach it (it's too large). If someone thinks it will be useful I will try again.
BTW, I am a relative newcomer to Linux and Mint, so maybe I should have posted this to the Newbie forum.
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Re: Boot Problems LMDE4
Are we there yet, dad? Are we there yet, mum?
The output from inxi shows this:
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Drives: Local Storage: total: 938.51 GiB used: 78.76 GiB (8.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Patriot model: Burst size: 894.25 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter> temp: 33 C
ID-2: /dev/sdg type: USB vendor: Lexar model: USB Flash Drive size: 29.81 GiB
serial: <filter>
ID-3: /dev/sdh type: USB vendor: Patriot model: Patriot Memory size: 14.44 GiB
serial: <filter>
/dev/sda
but a lot people install Linux Mint to flash devices. Also, can you post the output of both lsblk
and lsblk -if
, please? Finally, can you verify that your default boot is always EFI?When you post the output from a terminal, enclose it in code tags
[code]output.here[/code]
. You'll see the code tags icon </>
when you reply. When I have that information I'll see what I can do help you. You might need to widen your terminal to catch all the output of some of the commands.Re: Boot Problems LMDE4
That's not a big deal, but you should in either case have posted it in the LMDE area, not the Main Edition area.
Moved now, carry on
If your issue is solved, kindly indicate that by editing the first post in the topic, and adding [SOLVED] to the title. Thanks!
Re: Boot Problems LMDE4
The seat belt is on, Dad.
The desired outcome is to boot from sda. But since it doesn't work, I'm booting from a flash drive (with the installation files downloaded from the Mint site). BTW, I put the flash in a different USB slot when I booted this time. It's sdb here.
EFI should be the default.
Here is the code:
Also, sdc is a flash drive I inserted to copy the code.
The desired outcome is to boot from sda. But since it doesn't work, I'm booting from a flash drive (with the installation files downloaded from the Mint site). BTW, I put the flash in a different USB slot when I booted this time. It's sdb here.
EFI should be the default.
Here is the code:
mint@mint:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 1.7G 1 loop /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
sda 8:0 0 894.3G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 894.3G 0 part
├─lvmlmde-root
│ 254:0 0 878.7G 0 lvm
└─lvmlmde-swap
254:1 0 14.6G 0 lvm
sdb 8:16 1 14.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 1 1.9G 0 part /lib/live/mount/medium
└─sdb2 8:18 1 2.9M 0 part
sdc 8:32 1 29.8G 0 disk /media/mint/Data
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
mint@mint:~$ lsblk -if
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
loop0 squashfs 0 100% /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
sda
`-sda1 LVM2_member OweaXJ-rckH-XezR-OLnh-QC8V-3x6Y-enVUw6
|-lvmlmde-root ext4 9a359224-1d3b-4adc-b475-0ae204249a5c
`-lvmlmde-swap swap 0f3a6542-27c9-4ad8-87e2-4e121975f2c8
sdb iso9660 LMDE 4 Cinnamon 64-bit 2020-03-13-12-30-44-00
|-sdb1 iso9660 LMDE 4 Cinnamon 64-bit 2020-03-13-12-30-44-00 0 100% /lib/live/mount/medium
`-sdb2 vfat LMDE 4 Cinnamon 64-bit DEB0-0001
sdc vfat Data A367-09CB 28.6G 4% /media/mint/Data
sr0
mint@mint:~$
Also, sdc is a flash drive I inserted to copy the code.
Re: Boot Problems LMDE4
About all I know about LVM is how to spell it, but I notice you seem not to have an EFI partition.