Re: [PLUG] Request for help, bricked my PC attempting to dual-boot

LeRoy Cressy via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> · Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:11:17 +0000

On Monday, July 31, 2023 9:48:20 PM EDT Will via 
plug wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 20:43 Douglas Lentz via
> plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> 
> Recently got a new desktop PC. It came with
> Windows 11 preinstalled.  (Windows installation
> worked with no problems that I could see).
> There are one or two applications I use that
> unfortunately, only run on Windows. I attempted
> to set up dual booting, Ubuntu 22.04/Windows
> 11.
> 
> Partitioning and installation was unremarkable.
> First restart went OK  - grub gave me a "Select
> your OS" menu.
> 
> Updated Ubuntu. Ubuntu requested a restart to
> finish installation.

In Debian and Arch Linux distributions I have 
never seen a windows behavior of restarting the 
system during a system update.
> 
> The box now restarts to a Grub 2.06 command
> prompt screen. You know the one:
> 
> =========================================
> GNU grub 2.06
> 
> Minimal BASH-like editing is supported...
> 
> grub>
> 
> =========================================
> 
> However, I can't enter anything because the box
> no longer responds to  keyboard input. I've
> tried both a USB keyboard and one with the
> old-fashioned DNI type, circular keyboard
> connector. No good.
> 
> Is there anything else I can do, or any way to
> proceed from here, or  is the only alternative
> to take it to a service place and have the
> drive wiped?
> 
Do you have a System Rescue disk or other live 
Linux boot disk?

If so, boot the system with the live disk and 
mount the boot partition which will probably be 
your /dev/sda[34]

gdisk -l  might help you figure out what partition 
to mount.

fakeroot into your mounted root partition
run grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg 

you should see the grub various menu item 
detected.

> Thanks in advance
> 
> Doug Lentz
> dlentz@dca.net
> 
> 
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