Boot issue

[DanielKets]

HI everyone,

I have difficulties to start linux mint, I tried to use the boot repair but it doesn't work, I don't know what to do. Here is the boot-info file :

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boot-repair-4ppa125                                              [20210517_0828]

============================= Boot Repair Summary ==============================



/usr/share/boot-sav/bs-cmd_terminal.sh: line 177: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input

Recommended repair: ____________________________________________________________

The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility will reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of
sda3,
using the following options:    kernel-purge    sda1/boot/efi,
Additional repair will be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s  use-standard-efi-file  restore-efi-backups


Error: no /mnt/boot-sav/sda3/etc/fstab
rm /mnt/boot-sav/sda1/efi/Boot/bootx64.efi
mv /mnt/boot-sav/sda1/efi/Boot/bkpbootx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/sda1/efi/Boot/bootx64.efi
Mount sda1 on /mnt/boot-sav/sda3/boot/efi
mv: cannot stat '/mnt/boot-sav/sda3/etc/resolv.conf': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file '/mnt/boot-sav/sda3/etc/resolv.conf': No such file or directory
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sda3 apt-get -y update
chroot: failed to run command ‘apt-get’: No such file or directory

================== dpkg -l | grep linux- before kernel purge ===================

chroot: failed to run command ‘dpkg’: No such file or directory

============================= Purge kernel of sda3 =============================

chroot: failed to run command 'apt-cache': No such file or directory
linux-generic NOT available (apt-cache policy  problem)
chroot: failed to run command ‘apt-get’: No such file or directory
DEBCHECK debNG, linux-generic
DEBCHECKLINUX debNG

=================== linux-generic purge cancelled
Please enable a repository containing the [linux-generic] packages in the software sources of unknown Linux distribution (sda3). Then try again.
No /mnt/boot-sav/sda3/etc/grub.d/ folder. Please report this message to boot.repair@gmail.com

================= Reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of sda3 ==================

grub-install --version
chroot: failed to run command ‘grub-install’: No such file or directory


efibootmgr -v from chroot before grub install
chroot: failed to run command 'efibootmgr': No such file or directory


uname -r
chroot: failed to run command 'uname': No such file or directory


grub-install --uefi-secure-boot
chroot: failed to run command 'grub-install': No such file or directory
Exit code: 127
Failed to run command grub-install detected.
chroot: failed to run command ‘type’: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1162992 Feb 24 19:33 /mnt/boot-sav/sda3/usr/sbin/grub-install
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1162992 Feb 24 19:33 /mnt/boot-sav/sda3/usr/sbin/grub-install

grub-install --uefi-secure-boot
chroot: failed to run command 'grub-install': No such file or directory
Exit code: 127
df /dev/sda1
mv /mnt/boot-sav/sda3/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/sda3/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bkpbootx64.efi
cp /mnt/boot-sav/sda3/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/sda3/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

grub-install --uefi-secure-boot
chroot: failed to run command 'grub-install': No such file or directory
Exit code: 127

---- Grub-install recheck

/usr/sbin/grub-install --uefi-secure-boot --recheck
chroot: failed to run command '/usr/sbin/grub-install': No such file or directory
Exit code: 127
---- End of grub-install recheck


efibootmgr -v from chroot after grub install
chroot: failed to run command 'efibootmgr': No such file or directory

chroot: failed to run command 'lsb_release': No such file or directory
Error: NVram is locked ( not found in efibootmgr).

chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sda3 update-grub
chroot: failed to run command 'update-grub': No such file or directory

An error occurred during the repair.

Locked-NVram detected.


============================ Boot Info After Repair ============================

 => No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.

sda1: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       vfat
    Boot sector type:  FAT32
    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:  
    Boot files:        /efi/BOOT/bkpbootx64.efi /efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi
                       /efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT/grubx64.efi
                       /efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
                       /efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
                       /efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg

sda2: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       vfat
    Boot sector type:  FAT32
    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:  
    Boot files:        

sda3: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       ext4
    Boot sector type:  -
    Boot sector info:
    Operating System:  
    Boot files:        

sdb: ___________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       iso9660
    Boot sector type:  Unknown
    Boot sector info:
    Mounting failed:   mount: /mnt/BootInfo/FD/sdb: /dev/sdb already mounted or mount point busy.


================================ 1 OS detected =================================

OS#1:   unknown Linux distribution on sda3

============================ Architecture/Host Info ============================

CPU architecture: 64-bit
Live-session OS is Linuxmint 64-bit (Linux Mint 20.1, ulyssa, x86_64)


===================================== UEFI =====================================

BIOS is EFI-compatible, and is setup in EFI-mode for this live-session.
SecureBoot disabled.

efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0005
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0004,0005,0000,0003
Boot0000* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,35313f71-68e3-4829-bbbc-3e3916419501,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\UBUNTU\SHIMX64.EFI)
Boot0003* Hard Drive BBS(HD,,0x0)..GO..NO........o.S.a.n.D.i.s.k. .S.D.9.S.B.8.W.2.5.6.G.1.0.0.2....................A...........................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.8.1.4.2.2.0.0.8.8.3.0.8. . . . . . . . ........BO..NO........s. .U.S.B. .F.l.a.s.h. .M.e.m.o.r.y.P.M.A.P....................A.......................F..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.0.0.1.D.0.F.1.2.7.5.A.F.B.9.C.0.A.3.1.3.0.0.4.B........BO
Boot0004* UEFI:  USB Flash MemoryPMAP PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(2,0)/CDROM(1,0x288,0x7c00)..BO
Boot0005* UEFI:  USB Flash MemoryPMAP, Partition 1 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(2,0)/HD(1,MBR,0xad557c9d,0x800,0x784800)..BO

78415fb8fb9b909f8029858113f1335f   sda1/BOOT/bkpbootx64.efi
78415fb8fb9b909f8029858113f1335f   sda1/BOOT/bootx64.efi
2895d47544fd587b26c7e29be1295c27   sda1/BOOT/fbx64.efi
e169c84b62cae5d67d21f3412edf807f   sda1/BOOT/grubx64.efi
dc3c47be2f78a78e5e57d097ae6c5c84   sda1/BOOT/mmx64.efi
e169c84b62cae5d67d21f3412edf807f   sda1/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
dc3c47be2f78a78e5e57d097ae6c5c84   sda1/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
78415fb8fb9b909f8029858113f1335f   sda1/ubuntu/shimx64.efi


============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================

Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________

sda : is-GPT, no-BIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes

Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________

sda1 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far
sda2 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far
sda3 : is-os, 64, apt-get, signed grub-pc grub-efi , grub2, grub-install, no-grubenv, update-grub, farbios

Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________

sda1 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sda2 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sda3 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot

Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________

sda1 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda
sda2 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda
sda3 : not-sepboot, no-kernel, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, with--usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda

fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________

Disk sda: 238.49 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk identifier: 22AF5B4C-0111-4284-ACFC-E18D0F7EA062
          Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
sda1       2048   1050623   1048576   512M EFI System
sda2    1050624 164890623 163840000  78.1G Microsoft basic data
sda3  164890624 500117503 335226880 159.9G Linux filesystem
Disk sdb: 3.78 GiB, 4037017600 bytes, 7884800 sectors
Disk identifier: 0xad557c9d
      Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
sdb1  *     2048 7884799 7882752  3.8G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________

sda:256GB:scsi:512:512:gpt:ATA SanDisk SD9SB8W2:;
1:1049kB:538MB:537MB:fat32:EFI System Partition:boot, esp;
2:538MB:84.4GB:83.9GB:fat32::msftdata;
3:84.4GB:256GB:172GB:ext4::;
sdb:4037MB:scsi:512:512:msdos: USB Flash Memory:;
1:1049kB:4037MB:4036MB:fat32::boot, lba;

blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________

NAME   FSTYPE   UUID                                 PARTUUID                             LABEL                         PARTLABEL
sda                                                                                                                    
├─sda1 vfat     7BC8-08B7                            35313f71-68e3-4829-bbbc-3e3916419501                               EFI System Partition
├─sda2 vfat     C531-28E9                            7df89981-4ab0-4d05-b26d-08ea2333bfe5 save                          
└─sda3 ext4     cf176e13-7cd0-448e-bc1a-3f2a353f67dc 3f1cfd5f-488f-4677-8a87-e8c6205e74c2                              
sdb    iso9660  2020-06-24-19-01-47-00                                                    Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon 64-bit
└─sdb1 vfat     8C42-7244                            ad557c9d-01                          CLÉ USB                      

df (filtered): _________________________________________________________________

       Avail Use% Mounted on
sda1   492.4M   4% /mnt/boot-sav/sda1
sda2    60.1G  23% /mnt/boot-sav/sda2
sda3      46G  66% /mnt/boot-sav/sda3
sdb1     1.8G  53% /cdrom

Mount options: __________________________________________________________________

sda1   rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
sda2   rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
sda3   rw,relatime
sdb1   ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro

===================== sda1/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================

search.fs_uuid cf176e13-7cd0-448e-bc1a-3f2a353f67dc root hd0,gpt3
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg


======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =========================

Unknown BootLoader on sdb

00000000  fa 31 c0 8e d8 8e d0 bc  00 7c 89 e6 06 57 8e c0  |.1.......|...W..|
00000010  fb fc bf 00 06 b9 00 01  f3 a5 ea 1f 06 00 00 52  |...............R|
00000020  52 b4 41 bb aa 55 31 c9  30 f6 f9 cd 13 72 13 81  |R.A..U1.0....r..|
00000030  fb 55 aa 75 0d d1 e9 73  09 66 c7 06 8d 06 b4 42  |.U.u...s.f.....B|
00000040  eb 15 5a b4 08 cd 13 83  e1 3f 51 0f b6 c6 40 f7  |..Z......?Q...@.|
00000050  e1 52 50 66 31 c0 66 99  e8 66 00 e8 21 01 4d 69  |.RPf1.f..f..!.Mi|
00000060  73 73 69 6e 67 20 6f 70  65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20  |ssing operating |
00000070  73 79 73 74 65 6d 2e 0d  0a 66 60 66 31 d2 bb 00  |system...f`f1...|
00000080  7c 66 52 66 50 06 53 6a  01 6a 10 89 e6 66 f7 36  ||fRfP.Sj.j...f.6|
00000090  f4 7b c0 e4 06 88 e1 88  c5 92 f6 36 f8 7b 88 c6  |.{.........6.{..|
000000a0  08 e1 41 b8 01 02 8a 16  fa 7b cd 13 8d 64 10 66  |..A......{...d.f|
000000b0  61 c3 e8 c4 ff be be 7d  bf be 07 b9 20 00 f3 a5  |a......}.... ...|
000000c0  c3 66 60 89 e5 bb be 07  b9 04 00 31 c0 53 51 f6  |.f`........1.SQ.|
000000d0  07 80 74 03 40 89 de 83  c3 10 e2 f3 48 74 5b 79  |..t.@.......Ht[y|
000000e0  39 59 5b 8a 47 04 3c 0f  74 06 24 7f 3c 05 75 22  |9Y[.G.<.t.$.<.u"|
000000f0  66 8b 47 08 66 8b 56 14  66 01 d0 66 21 d2 75 03  |f.G.f.V.f..f!.u.|
00000100  66 89 c2 e8 ac ff 72 03  e8 b6 ff 66 8b 46 1c e8  |f.....r....f.F..|
00000110  a0 ff 83 c3 10 e2 cc 66  61 c3 e8 62 00 4d 75 6c  |.......fa..b.Mul|
00000120  74 69 70 6c 65 20 61 63  74 69 76 65 20 70 61 72  |tiple active par|
00000130  74 69 74 69 6f 6e 73 2e  0d 0a 66 8b 44 08 66 03  |titions...f.D.f.|
00000140  46 1c 66 89 44 08 e8 30  ff 72 13 81 3e fe 7d 55  |F.f.D..0.r..>.}U|
00000150  aa 0f 85 06 ff bc fa 7b  5a 5f 07 fa ff e4 e8 1e  |.......{Z_......|
00000160  00 4f 70 65 72 61 74 69  6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 65  |.Operating syste|
00000170  6d 20 6c 6f 61 64 20 65  72 72 6f 72 2e 0d 0a 5e  |m load error...^|
00000180  ac b4 0e 8a 3e 62 04 b3  07 cd 10 3c 0a 75 f1 cd  |....>b.....<.u..|
00000190  18 f4 eb fd 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000001a0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000001b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  9d 7c 55 ad 00 00 80 04  |.........|U.....|
000001c0  01 04 0c fe c2 ff 00 08  00 00 00 48 78 00 00 00  |...........Hx...|
000001d0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
000001f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa  |..............U.|
00000200


=============================== StdErr Messages ================================

File descriptor 63 (pipe:[57506]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 4777: /bin/bash

Thanks

[gittiest personITW]

Welcome to the forums.

You don't give much information.
Can you read through the following link and especially follow number 5.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=83444
Was this a new installation or not?
Do you have Timeshift snapshots?
Was this from an upgrade or an update or just randomly decided not to boot?
Don't just focus on those questions but give us all the details as none of us are by your computer at the moment (or at least if they are they might be hiding under your bed - just take a quick peek to put your mind at rest)

[DanielKets]

Thanks for welcoming me.
First I could not boot because timeshift took all the space on the partition, so I increased the space of the partition to fix the problem. Then I could boot properly.
And then when I was trying to delete timeshift backups the screen froze and I had to force my laptop to restart by pressing the on/off button.
After that, the grub2 menu appeared and I used a live CD to fix the boot. Now when I start the laptop, I have a message saying : GNU GRUB version 2.04
Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions.

I'm using Linux mint 64bits, cinnamon
Thanks

[gittiest personITW]

Ok - that explains alot.

Timeshift should point to a different partition and ideally a different disk as disks will fail occassionally - so its better to have that redundancy.
Unfortunately Timeshift doesn't notify people of the possibility of the problem that you experienced. Apart from that it is an indispensible piece of software.

Can you run us through how you tried to delete the files - any commands/key presses etc.
Did you do it by command line?
Was the hard drive deleting the files when you reset the computer ?
What exactly froze - as in was the hard drive light busy?

[DanielKets]

I did not use command line, I just right clic and delete the files. I don't know if the hard drive was deleting it when I reset the computer. While deleting the files, the Asus screen appeared as if the operating system failed and it wanted to restart but then the keyboard and the launchpad did not respond, that's why I reset.

Now all I can see when I try to start is :
GNU GRUB version 2.04
Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions.

[gittiest personITW]

Try booting into Live Mint.
Run Timeshift and see if there is a restore point available. If there are a few, then delete a couple - just to give you some space on your drive.
Then, restore to a snapshot.
As soon as you are able to boot into your system, go into Gparted, make or find an EXT4 partition (preferably on a different drive from your system drive) that has 100GB (enough for 12 or more snapshots depending on your system) Timeshift and change your Restore point schedule and where the snapshots are saved.
It is unlikely that you managed to delete any snapshots without doing it as sudo so hopefully you'll be ok. Did you try deleting them within Timeshift or did you try and take your chances in your file manager?

Let us know where you get to before there is a problem.

You may have to run a system check in Gparted if there is a more persistent problem - lets just see how the above goes first.
I trust you have backups of your important data.
If not then the first thing you do when you boot into Live Mint is to mount the system drive and backup your important data to at least one and preferably 2 or 3 external drives (yes, I am a bit OCD about backups but that is better than not being OCD about backups) that you dismount, disconnect and put them in a vault somewhere in the arctic circle as soon as that is done.

[DanielKets]

Timeshift can't find any snapshot, which is strange because I tried to delete only 2 out of 3 backups. I tried to delete it on the file manager.
There are some data I would like to backup, but I can't access it. It says : sorry, but you cannot execute commands from a remote site. This is disabled due to security considerations."

[AndyMH]

I think in trying to delete snapshots you have deleted more than you should have, there are clues in the boot-repair output.

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chroot: failed to run command '/usr/sbin/grub-install': No such file or directory

couldn't find the file

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OS#1:   unknown Linux distribution on sda3

it knows there is an OS on sda3, but can't work out which one.

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sda3 : not-sepboot, no-kernel, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, with--usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda

It can't find fstab, part-has-no-fstab, fundamental to booting linux.

I think you have borked the system beyond repair and your only alternative is a re-install.

[DanielKets]

Yes I agree with you, I reinstalled it and it's ok now.
Thanks for your help guys

[AndyMH]

Keep using timeshift - it works, you aren't the first to have borked your system, we all have, some of us several times It has saved me on several occasions, just make sure you point it at an ext4 partition that is not your / partition.

[DanielKets]

ok, thanks