Grub rescue fails

[Member theprof422]

Hello. I’ve been using MX for about 2 years and Linux exclusively for 20+ years. However I have a day job and am a “user”, not a “guru”.

I’ll cut right to the chase without describing how I got here.

Trying to rescue my daily driver (my well-used MX-21 system) which will no longer boot after graphics card driver disaster with MX-upgrade.

Booting MX-21.2.1 from liveUSB and trying to use mx-boot-repair to re-install grub to ext4 boot partition on hard disk. I get the dreaded
“cannot set up chroot environment” error. Executing mx-boot repair from a terminal as root gives somewhat more informative errors:
“”mount: /tmp/mx-boot-repair-NqNugd/dev: mount point does not exist.”
“umount: /tmp/mx-boot-repair-NqNugd/run: not found”
QTemporaryDir: Unable to remove “/tmp/mx-boot-repair-NqNugd” most likely due to the presence of read-only files.

At face value this would seem to indicate that the liveUSB (which contains /tmp) is lacking something it needs.

Can anyone advise? I need my desktop back!

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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You would get faster and more reliable replies if you posted on the MX forum.

https://forum.mxlinux.org/

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[Member ModdIt]

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Please no matter where you ask for help give useful information.

Following is probably important
Trying to rescue my daily driver (my well-used MX-21 system) which will no longer boot after graphics card driver disaster with MX-upgrade.

But our crystal ball was stolen by vogons so we are unable to see apt or boot messages, same goes for any logfiles.

So always, ALWAYS post what happened exactly and what errors you have.

If you have broken video drivers You might be wasting time fighting grub.

If you are convinced grub is your problem super grub2 disk might be helpful.

And as anticapitalista pointed out better to post to the right forum. We help where we can but MX devs know more about MX than antiX users

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