Help recovering GRUB

colorpurple21859 · 09-15-2022, 07:49 AM

Do you still have the usb plugged in?

radiobuzz · 09-15-2022, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

Do you still have the usb plugged in?

Well I wasn't when I tried that. I'm currently downloading Bodhi Linux to see if I can flash it to the same USB stick. I'm not sure what is failing with Deepin but I never had this problem before so I'll try to install some other distro.

colorpurple21859 · 09-15-2022, 08:03 AM

When you first boot, pressing esc or a f-key to get a bios boot menu, is there an option for the drive and if so does it boot?

radiobuzz · 09-15-2022, 08:08 AM

Yes, I see my HDD drive and when I select it I get the boot menu again.

PS obviously I couldn't flash the iso into the same stick I'm using for the desktop.

colorpurple21859 · 09-15-2022, 08:20 AM

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Yes, I see my HDD drive and when I select it I get the boot menu again.

With the flash unplugged are you able to boot into deepin and windows?

radiobuzz · 09-15-2022, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

With the flash unplugged are you able to boot into deepin and windows?

No, nothing happens, I don't even get to a grub screen or grub rescue. It just goes back into selecting a booting device.

colorpurple21859 · 09-15-2022, 09:19 AM

With the usb unplugged and using the bios boot menu do you have an option to boot from disk and if so do you get a grub menu?

radiobuzz · 09-15-2022, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

With the usb unplugged and using the bios boot menu do you have an option to boot from disk and if so do you get a grub menu?

No, with no USB the PC just restarts over and over. If I press the sys key I can select booting from my HDD or the CD drive. I choose the HDD and then it goes black and comed back to the boot menu to choose a device.

colorpurple21859 · 09-15-2022, 11:13 AM

In the firmware/bios settings, secure boot is still disabled, fast boot is disabled if it exist and csm is still enable? In firmware/bios settings is there an option to put legacy/csm first in the boot order?

radiobuzz · 09-15-2022, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

In the firmware/bios settings, secure boot is still disabled, fast boot is disabled if it exist and csm is still enable? In firmware/bios settings is there an option to put legacy/csm first in the boot order?

Yes, everything is disabled. It gives you csm only, UEFI only and both. I have tried them all, the default was csm only.

colorpurple21859 · 09-15-2022, 11:59 AM

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Also for what is worth I found I can boot into a Deepin desktop by just removing a parameter on the USB boot menu,

What parameter did you remove from the usb boot menu?
at the deeepin desktop open a terminal and post the output of

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df -h

radiobuzz · 09-15-2022, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

What parameter did you remove from the usb boot menu?
at the deeepin desktop open a terminal and post the output of

Code:

df -h

I removed "livecd-installer" and replaced the locales to set mine.

Here's the output: https://ibb.co/bzQ8Vn8

radiobuzz · 09-15-2022, 05:58 PM

I've made a backup of my data using Deepin desktop so I'm currently reinstalling it and letting it use the whole drive, so I guess we'll never know what went wrong. Thanks colorpurple21859 for your time and patience.