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Hi everyone, I went to Mint forum for help but no one has helped me yet and it makes sense as i dont think mint is the problem. So i thought you guys could help. One guy over there thinks its something to do with the uuid
I am still somewhat new to this world and gave up 4 times trying to switch to linux. There is always something... I dont want to learn commands I am not interested in that I want to use the computer thats it. But I also refuse to go back to Microsoft or Cannonical. I dont want to debate this here. Anyway I chose LMDE and gonna stick to it.
With a multiple hard drives system (1 boot 2 storage) I had installed LMDE4 which run fine but then I wiped my storage drive( no dual boot). I dont know if the grub was on it but lmde wouldnt boot anymore, grub problems. So i just tried to reinstall lmde6 which didnt solve anything.
I tried repairboot. After install, when booting, I got stuck on the freaking black screen asking me to login TTY something where even putting the correct user and pass u set up at install wont work. No ctrl+alt+ F#whichever doesnt work. Someone somewhere suggested the environment wasnt installed. Anyway thats still not the problem.
Someone somewhere else suggested to tell grub which drive to load from by using commands that looked like "set boot=sda1 (the boot partition)something and then insmod something then normal" which didnt do anything because IT DIDNT KNOW WHAT NORMAL IS. Please remember I HAVE NOT CLUE what this all means... I just want the computer to run. Please forgive my frustration and exasperation. I went mint because I didnt want to bother with that stuff. Anyway, I took it upon myself to try more cause i dont want to go back to microsoft or canonical. But grub still isnt the problem I think.. see what follows...
Someone somewhere elselse said to go through recovery to go as root to edit a grub file or something like that..which ended with me not being able to do that because "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked"... I mean... All of this after ten hours for spelunking forums for solutions. I just want to smash the freaking pc at this point. I am sure all of this make sense to some of you but it does not for me.
So it dawn upon me that everything i read online was to try to salvage the information on the drive. I dont care, I already wiped everything. So why not just go to factory setting like when parts were new. Which is when I learned about kernel... they dont reset with cmos. I dont know how kernels works I dont care anymore. Normally I ld be eager to learn about it but I have so much time invested already on something so complex that im just brain dead now.
So what can I do to just get everything to factory so I cant just install LMDE6 and can finally go bang my head on the wall trying to install simpler stuff like non-free driver for my gpu and proton... PLEASE someone tell me the steps to just... get out of this mess once and for all...\
Wipe a drive.
Put the partitions that you want on it.
Put a filesystem on the partitions. Depending on what the partitions are for.
Install an operating system on the partition/partitions the way you want.
Install a bootloader.
All of that will take a little forethought. If it is a UEFI machine then you'll need a EFI system partition. If it is BIOS/gpt, and you are using grub, then you'll need a small boot partition.
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I dont want to learn commands I am not interested in that
You can't not learn and learn at the same time.
Read the docs for your distro. That is the best source of info.
I had installed LMDE4 which run fine but then I wiped my storage drive( no dual boot).
You may have deleted the system EFI partition that is needed for the computer to boot.
Open a terminal and type the commands mentioned, and post the output of the commands here so we can see disk partitions, and bootloaders registered with the bios/firmware. May have to add sudo to beginning of each command to get any useful output.
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 01-12-2024 at 04:52 PM.
Wipe a drive.
Put the partitions that you want on it.
Put a filesystem on the partitions. Depending on what the partitions are for.
Install an operating system on the partition/partitions the way you want.
Install a bootloader.
All of that will take a little forethought. If it is a UEFI machine then you'll need a EFI system partition. If it is BIOS/gpt, and you are using grub, then you'll need a small boot partition.
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I just want to smash the freaking pc at this point.
It never did anyone favors to smash things however, I can understand that your extremely frustrated to the point of just throwing your hands up and quitting. This attitude won't help you get any where , I know this from several times over my years of using many different distributions at several points on my journey I too have wanted go give up but I took a step back and this at certain points even gave it anywhere from a few hours to a day or more. I also understand that you need an operational PC so I'm quite prone to recommend that you consider a distribution like either MX Linux or either variant of Linux Mint.
EFI system partition where your boot files are. @ColorPurple thought you might have accidently deleted that one but clearly it's still there. Whether it still contains the right files is another matter.
If I were you I would try to mount it:
Code:
mount /dev/sda1
or if that doesn't work, the full command
Code:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /boot/efi
Then you can go to /boot/efi/EFI and look at the contents. Hopefully you will find a GRUB file there. Look for grub64.efi.
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