Hi folks......well my machine came to a screeching halt this afternoon. Went to check email and got an error about Whisker Menu and wanting to try again or remove. Well I sure didn't want to remove, so I cancelled.....and finally had no choice but to power off holding the power button as nothing was working.
Upon bootup.....I am now getting a command prompt for GRUB RESCUE>.......I have no idea what to do with my computer at this point or why this would have happened......
Ken
Hello!
Sounds like you need Boot Repair. This will fix the GRUB bootloader for you by reinstalling it. More info here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
It is available as a stand-alone Live CD, but personally, I've never had much success with using it that way. Instead, I do this:
While keeping in mind that these changes won't be saved to a Live CD or USB, on an LL Live CD/Live USB, I add the Boot Repair PPA:
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
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then I enter:
Code:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
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and follow the prompts from there.
If you want to have this available all the time, you can create a Live USB with persistence, but I just installed a small LL system on a 16GB SD card and added to it boot-repair and another goodie, ClamAV, to check Windows PCs for possible virus issues...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Wow.....just came back to find the reply. Thanks for the info.....the problem ended up being a hard drive failure. So, in the end a drive replacement and reload from scratch. I was still able to copy all files from the old drive on a drive dock....so all is well. Thanks again.