Sunday 16 August 2015

Booting in Grub rescue mode Multiboot with linux [solved] [Part 1] | Abhishek Singh

Hey buddies...
                    Today i'm gonna solve your problem. if your machine in booting into grub rescue mode due to deleted partition..

:: this tutorial works only if you have misplaced grub or corrupted grub and having more than one Linux OS installed in your machine (i recommend this for safety from these type of problems)..

so here is the case : the active grub on this machine was of fedora and i also have install Linux mint (multiboot). by mistake i deleted the partition of fedora from linux mint and now my machine boots is grub rescue mode cause of it cann't find the grub folder.

This post is for how to change the default location of grub and start system normally.

So, you boot your system and it show something like cann't find the file error.

type "ls"  without quotes (plz type all the commands without quotes)

it will list all your partition..

now test your partition for which is correct by typing "ls (hdX,msdosY) [X,y are numbers]
for the linux partition it will say ext2 type for other like windows unknown
in my case (hd0,msdos6) is the linux partition you can test all for partition and try.

see the image for reference



now i have my target partition
type "set root=(hdX,msdosY)"  [In my case X=0, Y=6]
again type "set prefix=(hdX,msdosY)/boot/grub [in my case X=0, Y=6]
type "insmod normal"
again type "normal" and hit <enter>.
you can see the image for reference.

now you are up ;]

but there is one problem which is unsolved by me now, you have to do this all the time whenever you boots your machine. well I'm on it.

thanks for reading my article. 
and if you have any problem doing this please feel free to comment here I'll surely help you. Thanks see you all later :)


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  2. Thank you very much ... your article was helpful. 😇

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