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ty505
After installing antiX from a live usb and going through the installation process through the command line terminal and after I finish and reboot I get sent to the Grub Rescue command line as opposed to booting up the operating system. I went into the BIOS and put the main SSD partition in which the OS was installed on to the top of the list, I also have it set to Legacy. What is going wrong?
- This topic was modified 5 months, 4 weeks ago by ty505.
anticapitalista
Where did you install grub?
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
On the root partition, is that why I’m having issues?
anticapitalista
Probably if you don’t have any other grub bootloader.
You should install to MBRPhilosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
What’s MBR?
anticapitalista
It’s the first option you were offered when you ran the installer (Master Boot Record).
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
That didn’t work
I still get the same error when booting.Attachments:
christophe
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Just copy and paste then highlight the text on the page and click on code button.These readouts will help us to help you.
inxi -zv7
Did you do a web search? I found this (searched “what is lvmid grub2”), which looks like it might be appropriate: It speaks of having GPT partitions combined with grub being installed to MBR. Is that your situation?
https://www.hiroom2.com/2018/06/07/linux-grub2-gpt-mbr-lvm-en/
- This reply was modified 5 months, 4 weeks ago by christophe.
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seaken64
Depending on what type of computer you have you may already have the tools you need on your antiX Live USB. The Live USB has a utility on it for searching out existing installations.
I have an old system that won’t support that 64-bit USB and something similar happened to me yesterday. I ran a routine update/upgrade session and after finishing and rebooting the grub was lost, just as you describe.
I used a CD Rom I made called Super Grub 2. I booted that and it scanned all my partitions and presented me with a menu of choices. I was able to launch another instance of antiX and after I got in I used “Boot Repair” to get my grub menu back.
The most recent antiX LiveUSB have a similar function on their UEFI boot menu.
Seaken64
If you only have the one antiX install when you are running the installer make sure to either choose MBR or EFI. Don’t use PBR (the same partition as your root) unless you already have a grub menu under control of another distro.
I do this a lot. I have several partitions and several linux installs. antiX is always well behaved and I always use my antiX install as my main system for updating the grub boot loader. But some other distros tend to take over the grub and sometimes leave the system in an unbootable state. I always relaunch antiX, sometimes from a Live USB, and run Boot Repair to the MBR (or EFI is using UEFI).
Seaken64
Brian Masinick
I agree @seaken64: PBR with GPT partitions is the way to go if you want multiple modern partitions; it’s also more complex.
OLD style one or two partition stuff – root and swap with MBR – don’t even NEED EFI/UEFI IF you are using it for ONLY antiX, and that way it also doesn’t matter whatsoever WHICH boot loader happens to be used – any boot loader, the smaller and faster, the better, is the way to go in that case!--
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