Purchased a Lenovo with latest stable version of Mint - Cinnamon installed off E-Bay awhile back. Worked good for a day or so, installed a few goodies, all was going well and it crashed. Thought it was something I did, later found it to be a combination of small (20 gig) Linux partition established and Timeshift creating huge backup files dumped into said partition locking it up.
Purchased Live Boot Drive off E-Bay with Repair Software installed on it, while waiting on that created my own Live Boot thumbdrive, fired it up, booted to the thumbdrive without a hiccup, found the timeshift files and deleted those, got it back up and running, but attempts at repair prior to finding the Timeshift problem had created other issues. As best I recall I deleted the small partition, and Installed to single large partition. All was working relatively well, had it all set up and running, all programs I wanted installed, but it was booting really slow.
Ran Boot Repair came up with a Kernel Error. Was attempting repair and inadvertently touched the scroll pad with my cursor parked over Cancel in the middle of said repair. Which I knew reeeeally sucked the moment it happened. Said a few nasty words, ran Boot Repair another time or two, and it seemed to be OK, came up with same type Kernel Error in Boot Repair, but all else worked fine. Rebooted and all I get is...
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If someone would be kind enough to point me to how to load images to the board, I do have a picture of the list I can post.
Will not boot to Live Boot Drive any longer, although it does light it up like it's reading it. Have tried both the one I created and the one I purchased, but me being greener than this board on Linux, that could be a PEBKAC error (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)
grubb> fwsetup - Allows me to enter BIOS Setup Utility. Turned off Secure Boot to no avail. Attempted to set Live Boot Drive as primary in Boot Order to no avail. All other attempts at Commands result in Need to Load Kernel, File Not Specified, Command Not Recognized.
What it is...
GNU Grubb Version 2.06-3~deb11u5
Insyde H20 Setup Utility -- Rev 3.7
Product Name Lenovo G50-45
Bios Version A2CN27WW(V1.09)
EC Version A2EC27WW(V1.09)
UUID Number 2D7B80BD-9F80-11E4-A961-68F7286D076C
CPU AMD A8-6410 APU AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
Hard Disk ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
ODD MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ8FBS
Windows License WIN (No Windows installed currently - do have a copy of Windows 10 I hope to dual boot on it.)
No passwords set - was attempting to get it all set up before going there and having to type it ten million times.
Secure Boot [Disabled]
Boot Mode [UEFI]
USB Boot [Enabled]
EFI
EFI HDD Device (ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB)
debian (ST1000LM024 HN-M191MBB)
EFI PXE Network
grub> ls
(proc) (memdisk) (lvm/lvmlmde-swap) (lvm/lmde-root) (hd0) (hd0, gpt1) (hd1) (hd1,msdos1) (cd0)
Does not seem to recognize any commands, have attempted a few, won't recognize sudo, won't recognize mount. (Again this could be user error.)
Assuming I needed to delete and reinstall, wouldn't recognize fdisk. Won't break me if I have to get my pistol out and shoot it, at this point I might find some satisfaction in that honestly, but I'd really like to get it back up and running just because shooting it would be an admission of defeat. And, I know enough about Linux to understand I may be able to save the current installation and NOT have to set it ALL back up from scratch.
I'm open to suggestions and know beyond a shadow of doubt, you folks have the answers!
