[SOLVED] My partitions are a mess and I cannot boot into Fedora

Brains · 02-15-2019, 07:01 PM

The three /dev/mapper/fedora are volumes inside of /dev/sda6. /dev/sda6 is a Logical Volume Group, LVM stands for Logical Volume Manager

zavmat · 02-15-2019, 08:36 PM

Thank you for clarifying. If I can ask another question, when I mount /dev/mapper/fedora-root to /mnt should I be able to navigate to /mnt/mnt/dev/mapper/fedora-root ? as it stands I don't know how to navigate to the volume from the mount point.

Brains · 02-15-2019, 08:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zavmat

should I be able to navigate to /mnt/mnt/dev/mapper/fedora-root

Typically /mnt directory is empty, once you mount /dev/mapper/fedora-root to the running Live Fedora /mnt directory, you can go in there and you will see all directories in the root of the installed Fedora. You can open the file manager in the running Live environment and navigate to /mnt and see it graphically or navigate there via command line. If you want to retrieve data from the user's home directory, you may need to do it as sudo or root via command line, but if you have Gnome DE, you may be able to open a directory as root by right clicking it and selecting that option from the graphical file browser. I use Fedora KDE, so don't know if that option is available with Fedora Gnome like Ubuntu Gnome.

zavmat · 02-15-2019, 09:03 PM

Thanks, I found it in the file manager.

I'm having trouble here:

Code:

[root@localhost-live /]# grub2-mkconfig -o /efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
/usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig: line 268: /efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg.new: No such file or directory

I navigated to the folder and there is no grub.cfg but there is grubia32.efi and grubx64.efi

looking back at the dnf,

Code:

Package grub2-efi-aa64-modules available, but not installed.
No match for argument: grub2-efi-modules

Brains · 02-15-2019, 09:11 PM

Code:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

Try the one in the code box above

Brains · 02-15-2019, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zavmat

Package grub2-efi-aa64-modules available, but not installed.
No match for argument: grub2-efi-modules

Looks like that package applies to previous version of Fedora, I don't have it installed either, so try with just installing:

Code:

dnf reinstall grub2-efi shim

EDIT: I do however have grub2-pc-modules installed, but I think just the grub2-efi and shim should be sufficient

zavmat · 02-15-2019, 10:01 PM

Compare this which was just found:

Code:

[root@localhost-live /]# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-44d5a50dfd92455fa45cb04f1accb9d0
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-44d5a50dfd92455fa45cb04f1accb9d0.img
device-mapper: reload ioctl on osprober-linux-sdc1  failed: Device or resource busy
Command failed.
Found Windows 7 on /dev/sda2
done

to this which was found 2 days ago

Code:

Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64.img
Found Windows 7 on /dev/sda2
Found Fedora 29 (Workstation Edition) on /dev/mapper/fedora-root
done

Brains · 02-15-2019, 10:11 PM

Code:

Disk /dev/sdc: 3.7 GiB, 4004511744 bytes, 7821312 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x7c3f77cf

This is from your fdisk -l output in your original post, I don't know what this drive is, you are most likely to know, it's only 4GB in size, perhaps removing it might help, but likely all the error is trying to say is that it could not be added to the list.

Brains · 02-15-2019, 10:16 PM

Quote:

[root@localhost-live /]# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

Did you follow all commands listed in my first post code box? Seems to me the word "live" in the red highlight above should not be present in a chroot, but I could be wrong.

zavmat · 02-15-2019, 10:22 PM

I can't delete it from cfdisk but I'm looking into it. If I reboot will all the others show up on Grub?

zavmat · 02-15-2019, 10:24 PM

I did, chroot and all:

Code:

[root@localhost-live ~]# sudo mount /dev/mapper/fedora-root /mnt
[root@localhost-live ~]# sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/boot
[root@localhost-live ~]# sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
[root@localhost-live ~]# sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
[root@localhost-live ~]# sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
[root@localhost-live ~]# sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
[root@localhost-live ~]# sudo mount -o bind /run /mnt/run
[root@localhost-live ~]# sudo chroot /mnt
[root@localhost-live /]# dnf reinstall grub2-efi grub2-efi-modules shim
Fedora Modular 29 - x86_64 - Updates             10 kB/s |  17 kB     00:01    
Fedora 29 - x86_64 - Updates                     12 kB/s |  17 kB     00:01    
Fedora 29 - x86_64 - Updates                    563 kB/s |  23 MB     00:40    
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:01 ago on Fri 15 Feb 2019 10:01:07 PM EST.
Package grub2-efi-aa64-modules available, but not installed.
No match for argument: grub2-efi-modules
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package               Arch          Version                Repository     Size
================================================================================
Reinstalling:
 grub2-efi-ia32        x86_64        1:2.02-62.fc29         fedora        333 k
 grub2-efi-x64         x86_64        1:2.02-62.fc29         fedora        352 k
 shim-x64              x86_64        15-7                   fedora        658 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================

Total download size: 1.3 M
Installed size: 8.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): grub2-efi-x64-2.02-62.fc29.x86_64.rpm    126 kB/s | 352 kB     00:02    
(2/3): grub2-efi-ia32-2.02-62.fc29.x86_64.rpm    91 kB/s | 333 kB     00:03    
(3/3): shim-x64-15-7.x86_64.rpm                 149 kB/s | 658 kB     00:04    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           236 kB/s | 1.3 MB     00:05     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
Reinstall: shim-x64-15-7.x86_64
  Reinstalling     : shim-x64-15-7.x86_64                                   1/6 
Reinstall: shim-x64-15-7.x86_64
Reinstall: grub2-efi-x64-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64
  Reinstalling     : grub2-efi-x64-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64                    2/6 
Reinstall: grub2-efi-x64-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64
Reinstall: grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64
  Reinstalling     : grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64                   3/6 
Reinstall: grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64
Reinstalled: shim-x64-15-7.x86_64
  Cleanup          : shim-x64-15-7.x86_64                                   4/6 
Reinstalled: shim-x64-15-7.x86_64
Reinstalled: grub2-efi-x64-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64
  Cleanup          : grub2-efi-x64-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64                    5/6 
Reinstalled: grub2-efi-x64-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64
Reinstalled: grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64
  Cleanup          : grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64                   6/6 
Reinstalled: grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64
  Verifying        : grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64                   1/6 
  Verifying        : grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64                   2/6 
  Verifying        : grub2-efi-x64-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64                    3/6 
  Verifying        : grub2-efi-x64-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64                    4/6 
  Verifying        : shim-x64-15-7.x86_64                                   5/6 
  Verifying        : shim-x64-15-7.x86_64                                   6/6 

Reinstalled:
  grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64    grub2-efi-x64-1:2.02-62.fc29.x86_64   
  shim-x64-15-7.x86_64                   

Complete!
[root@localhost-live /]# grub2-mkconfig -o /efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
/usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig: line 268: /efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg.new: No such file or directory
[root@localhost-live /]# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-44d5a50dfd92455fa45cb04f1accb9d0
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-44d5a50dfd92455fa45cb04f1accb9d0.img
device-mapper: reload ioctl on osprober-linux-sdc1  failed: Device or resource busy
Command failed.
Found Windows 7 on /dev/sda2
done

How do you exit a chroot? I messed something up earlier, Firefox went black, the power button mysteriously disappeared and I could not issue the reboot command from a chroot. I closed out of terminal reopened it and the screen just went black.

Brains · 02-15-2019, 10:25 PM

Give it a shot, you can always go over it again, I edited my original post code to reflect the changes.

/dev/sdc could likely be the live CD

zavmat · 02-15-2019, 10:48 PM

all Fedora options start to boot, timeout at

Code:

a start job is runnung for dev-disk-by\x2duiid-241E\x2d0EAB.device

then it runs through some things and stops at

Code:

cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. See sulogin(8) man page for more details.

Brains · 02-15-2019, 10:58 PM

Did you try hitting the enter key?

Brains · 02-15-2019, 11:12 PM

That issue can likely be resolved, lots of links in a Google search. Probably best to start a new thread if you need help since this one is basically solved.