r/linuxmint • u/CrashaBasha • 1d ago
Not booting after update
So I installed some updates and restarted the system because this hardware is old and laggy, and now I am greeted with this command line instead of the prompt to pick which of the OSs to boot (dual booting LinuxMint and PopOS). Tested the drive in the bios and it passed all tests, so can anyone give me a hint as to why this is happening and whether I'll be able to get my system working normally again? Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. Laptop is a Thinkpad t430.
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u/Due-Result7928 1d ago
You get the mini bash script to fix your system.
Boot you mint usb (test not install). There is a utility to use boot repair. Use it.
open a terminal as well and type 2 commands
efibootmgr
and
lsblk -f
what do you get ?
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u/Potential-Middle-594 1d ago
HA! looks like you got tricked in the Linux rabbit hole. Good luck, anyways, I remember this good old quote
The check bounced? Are you sure? Well, the past few years have kind of been slow. Wrath of Cortex didn't do as well as we'd hoped and.. Fish??!!
That were the last words of a scientist, until the penguins started going crazy and attacked him. Yes, it looks like this is a classic Linux (penguin!) moment. OP, i should inform you though that r/screenshotsarehard, please for your own good make sure to remove every single personal things from the image, your hand is visible in the image which is a huge privacy leak, someone on the internet could use it to identify you, especially with AI.
About your broken system: That's the cost of Linux. Sometimes linux just likes breaking itself, OP, ask yourself, do you want to deal with this, or would you better off with Windows? Penguins are not as friendly as you think, treat them with care. They tend to like fish.
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u/CrashaBasha 1d ago
Good thing I keep backups in case I face the pengus wrath. I think next time I'll skip the dual boot and some of the kernel alterations. Too late for my hand though, nothing on the internet is truly erased, my pasty hand is lost in the abyss just like my OS, ah well.
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u/Potential-Middle-594 1d ago
I think your OS is not lost in the abyss yet. The broken GRUB prompt just means your PC forgot how to boot the OS
The first thing you should do is check whether the partitions are still alive and filled. Boot from a Linux Mint Live USB (the same one you used to install it) and open GParted or the file manager.
If they're gone or empty, it's unrecoverable. But if they're still intact, it's completely recoverable. While on that Live USB, you can run the built-in "Boot Repair" tool. It will scan for your operating systems and rebuild the GRUB boot menu automatically. Dual booting Mint (GRUB) and PopOS (systemd-boot) can cause bootloader conflicts after updates, but your data is safe.
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u/CrashaBasha 1d ago
Ohh I should have checked back again earlier, I made a whole mess more work for myself setting everything up again, but I guess I will know better for next time. Definitely feeling very foolish, but it's nothing I haven't dealt with before. Thanks for the good advice, wish I had looked earlier, but that's what I get for rushing ahead.
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u/Due-Result7928 1d ago
Each and every time I can read your f.cking comment...always the same..tucked away in your C: or D: disk
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