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Re: [LUG] Lost setup

 

On 19/06/2020 20:59, comrade meowski wrote:

Well you're not going to like this but it's time to boot a live system, 
chroot into your install and fix up the bootloader then.
Warning: I'm not at all convinced of your diagnosis.

Some more information you'll have to harvest from a live boot system about your existing installation would be ideal.
Check Secure Boot settings in the UEFI as well - disable it if it's back 
on for some reason.
There are multiple ways to attack this - if your system has a EFI shell 
available (which it doesn't seem to) we could use that to manually load 
the operating system. You could also interrupt a live system early in 
boot and drop to it's grub prompt: we could then use that to correctly 
locate and then load the OS as well. Both are somewhat advanced and are 
going to be hellish to try and explain via a mailing list though.
Full live boot and chroot are probably going to be the most intelligible 
to you but I'd be prepared for a hard slog, this isn't going to be 
pretty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, thanks for the encouragement. I have checked and secure boot is off. The date shown in the BIOS is correct.
As I have said, I can run it from a live USB and can then read all the 
files on the SSD.
I don't know what an EFI shell is, so will have a Google for it.

Could it be as simple as a loose connection?

Neil

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