The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.
We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.
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We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.
Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense  < majb@azloco.com >  wrote:  The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center,  1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista .  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.
Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense  < majb@azloco.com >  wrote:  The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 
On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" < chazbreaux@gmail.com > wrote:
Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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Thanks, I did figure out...
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Devi Garcia  < asphyxiated.god@gmail.com >  wrote:
Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

Thanks, I did figure out...

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:

Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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HELP,
I got a big problem!  I had 3 partitions, I deleted the one with
Mint, and now my ubuntu 16.04 wont' boot. get this error: no such

HELP, I got a big problem!  I had 3 partitions, I deleted the one with Mint, and now my ubuntu 16.04 wont' boot. get this error: no such partition. entering rescue mode...grub rescue>

I researched online but, man this is way over my head. This is one thing I found but I've learned the hard way not to do commands when you don't understand what you're doing....like the post I followed to delete a partition—which never mentioned loosing the boot info!!!

Working off boot DVD, I used gpart to delete the Mint partition, then resized the ubuntu 16.04 to include that partition, but got a message that to complete the resize might injure the boot info, so I clicked on undue the resize. But, when I tried to boot got the grub rescue prompt.

anyway, there seems to be a lot of different ways to do this according to the posts I have researched, all kinds of complicated commands etc that I have no understanding of. I also will want to either delete or downsize the partition with ubuntu 14 on it. I think part of the problem might be that 16.04 was the last partition i added. On the gpart menu it is on the right of the box/graph that shows the relative size of the partition....

Can anyone walk me through this? I really need my computer back! Sure would hate to have to reformat the HD and reinstall everything!

Thanks,

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Charles Breaux <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, I did figure out...

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:

Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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Hi Charles.  Yeah, working with live partitions can be adventurous.  I'll try to give you the solution I would use, but I don't remember the exact commands or file names and locations, so some of this will be up to you.
Step 1 is to boot the live DVD, but don't install. Just get to a desktop. 
Step 2 is to mount your root partition.  In the unlikely event you have made a separate /boot partition, you will need to mount that too.  I would open a terminal window to do this, but whatever tool works for you.  The commands to mount your root partition will likely be something like:

Hi Charles.  Yeah, working with live partitions can be adventurous.  I'll try to give you the solution I would use, but I don't remember the exact commands or file names and locations, so some of this will be up to you.

Step 1 is to boot the live DVD, but don't install. Just get to a desktop. 

Step 2 is to mount your root partition.  In the unlikely event you have made a separate /boot partition, you will need to mount that too.  I would open a terminal window to do this, but whatever tool works for you.  The commands to mount your root partition will likely be something like:

"mkdir /mnt/myroot" 

"mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/myroot" 

Step 3 is to edit your grub conf or grub boot file.  This is either in something like 

/mnt/myroot/boot/grub 

or a symlink in 

/mnt/myroot/etc/default 

or /mnt/myroot/etc/grub, 

something like that.  

Look for grub.conf, grub.boot, boot.grub, you get the idea.  

Find the stanza with the partition you want to boot into, and change the number to either 1 or 0, depending on the grub you use.  It is probably 1, though, for the newer grub versions. You should not need to run update-grub, as you would need to be chrooted to myroot.  You should not need to edit grub chrooted to myroot.  

Step 4 is to reboot and cross your fingers.  If it still doesn't boot, repeat these steps and double check your grub stanzas. 

I think this will get you across the finish line.  Your stuff is still there, grub just needs to know where it is.

Bruce

 

On Nov 20, 2017 1:21 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

HELP, I got a big problem!  I had 3 partitions, I deleted the one with Mint, and now my ubuntu 16.04 wont' boot. get this error: no such partition. entering rescue mode...grub rescue>

I researched online but, man this is way over my head. This is one thing I found but I've learned the hard way not to do commands when you don't understand what you're doing....like the post I followed to delete a partition—which never mentioned loosing the boot info!!!

Working off boot DVD, I used gpart to delete the Mint partition, then resized the ubuntu 16.04 to include that partition, but got a message that to complete the resize might injure the boot info, so I clicked on undue the resize. But, when I tried to boot got the grub rescue prompt.

anyway, there seems to be a lot of different ways to do this according to the posts I have researched, all kinds of complicated commands etc that I have no understanding of. I also will want to either delete or downsize the partition with ubuntu 14 on it. I think part of the problem might be that 16.04 was the last partition i added. On the gpart menu it is on the right of the box/graph that shows the relative size of the partition....

Can anyone walk me through this? I really need my computer back! Sure would hate to have to reformat the HD and reinstall everything!

Thanks,

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Charles Breaux <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, I did figure out...

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:

Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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Charles, I have not heard of boot-repair, so I don't have an opinion on it.  I didn't see any other options not referring to boot-repair.  
As for the timeshift file, I have not heard of that either, but you can boot a live dvd,  mount your hard drive partitions,  open a terminal window, and run
sudo updatedb

Charles, I have not heard of boot-repair, so I don't have an opinion on it.  I didn't see any other options not referring to boot-repair.  

As for the timeshift file, I have not heard of that either, but you can boot a live dvd, mount your hard drive partitions, open a terminal window, and run

sudo updatedb

sudo locate timeshift_filename

You don't need to know the exact filename - wildcards work too. 

I have no idea how you would restore it, other than installing the app (timeshift) to the live dvd and running it, selecting the filename you found.

I feel terrible that you are having such a rough time with Linux. It has  only happened a couple times to me where something went wrong and I lost a drive, and I definitely know the feeling of frustration at not being able to get your data back. But in your case, the data is still there (I lost raid sets and logical volume manager data). 

Reading my earlier response to you, I can see how vague it sounds, and my excuse is that I am lying in bed typing on my phone in the dark before I get up for work.  But, I think you can do the steps I laid out, which I bet is what boot-repair tries to also do. 

In the live dvd running environment, your hard drive partitions won't be mounted, as a safety feature.  You need to manually mount the partition you want access to.

Google the name of the grub boot file and find it on your root partition.  Edit it using pico, nano, or vim. 

Google a working sample of a grub boot file, and use that as your guide.  Find the stanza your want (in your grub boot config file) as your default boot and set it to the lowest number. Get rid of the stanza that points to the partition you deleted (commenting it out is safe). 

This will hopefully get you running again. I think the only thing standing in your way is just one number that is set in a text file on your root partition. 

Good luck!

Bruce

On Nov 21, 2017 1:06 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Bruce, but I don't know enough to venture into your suggestions.

I have found numerous fixes for the the grub rescue, they are all different and some rather involved. I have attached some of these, do you have an opinion on which of these would be advisable? 

And, worst case scenario:  I have a time shift back up on the HD which I assume I could access using a live DVD. Do you know where I can find that back up file, and could I use it that file to reinstall 16.04 after I reformat the drive. How would I install that file?

Thanks, another nuked nubie...

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 1:40 PM, HateNo Hama <hateno.hama@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Charles.  Yeah, working with live partitions can be adventurous.  I'll try to give you the solution I would use, but I don't remember the exact commands or file names and locations, so some of this will be up to you.

Step 1 is to boot the live DVD, but don't install. Just get to a desktop. 

Step 2 is to mount your root partition.  In the unlikely event you have made a separate /boot partition, you will need to mount that too.  I would open a terminal window to do this, but whatever tool works for you.  The commands to mount your root partition will likely be something like:

"mkdir /mnt/myroot" 

"mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/myroot" 

Step 3 is to edit your grub conf or grub boot file.  This is either in something like 

/mnt/myroot/boot/grub 

or a symlink in 

/mnt/myroot/etc/default 

or /mnt/myroot/etc/grub, 

something like that.  

Look for grub.conf, grub.boot, boot.grub, you get the idea.  

Find the stanza with the partition you want to boot into, and change the number to either 1 or 0, depending on the grub you use.  It is probably 1, though, for the newer grub versions. You should not need to run update-grub, as you would need to be chrooted to myroot.  You should not need to edit grub chrooted to myroot.  

Step 4 is to reboot and cross your fingers.  If it still doesn't boot, repeat these steps and double check your grub stanzas. 

I think this will get you across the finish line.  Your stuff is still there, grub just needs to know where it is.

Bruce

 

On Nov 20, 2017 1:21 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

HELP, I got a big problem!  I had 3 partitions, I deleted the one with Mint, and now my ubuntu 16.04 wont' boot. get this error: no such partition. entering rescue mode...grub rescue>

I researched online but, man this is way over my head. This is one thing I found but I've learned the hard way not to do commands when you don't understand what you're doing....like the post I followed to delete a partition—which never mentioned loosing the boot info!!!

Working off boot DVD, I used gpart to delete the Mint partition, then resized the ubuntu 16.04 to include that partition, but got a message that to complete the resize might injure the boot info, so I clicked on undue the resize. But, when I tried to boot got the grub rescue prompt.

anyway, there seems to be a lot of different ways to do this according to the posts I have researched, all kinds of complicated commands etc that I have no understanding of. I also will want to either delete or downsize the partition with ubuntu 14 on it. I think part of the problem might be that 16.04 was the last partition i added. On the gpart menu it is on the right of the box/graph that shows the relative size of the partition....

Can anyone walk me through this? I really need my computer back! Sure would hate to have to reformat the HD and reinstall everything!

Thanks,

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Charles Breaux <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, I did figure out...

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:

Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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Thanks Bruce, but I don't know enough to venture into your suggestions.
I
have found numerous fixes for the the grub rescue, they are all

Thanks Bruce, but I don't know enough to venture into your suggestions.

I have found numerous fixes for the the grub rescue, they are all different and some rather involved. I have attached some of these, do you have an opinion on which of these would be advisable? 

And, worst case scenario:  I have a time shift back up on the HD which I assume I could access using a live DVD. Do you know where I can find that back up file, and could I use it that file to reinstall 16.04 after I reformat the drive. How would I install that file?

Thanks, another nuked nubie...

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 1:40 PM, HateNo Hama <hateno.hama@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Charles.  Yeah, working with live partitions can be adventurous.  I'll try to give you the solution I would use, but I don't remember the exact commands or file names and locations, so some of this will be up to you.

Step 1 is to boot the live DVD, but don't install. Just get to a desktop. 

Step 2 is to mount your root partition.  In the unlikely event you have made a separate /boot partition, you will need to mount that too.  I would open a terminal window to do this, but whatever tool works for you.  The commands to mount your root partition will likely be something like:

"mkdir /mnt/myroot" 

"mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/myroot" 

Step 3 is to edit your grub conf or grub boot file.  This is either in something like 

/mnt/myroot/boot/grub 

or a symlink in 

/mnt/myroot/etc/default 

or /mnt/myroot/etc/grub, 

something like that.  

Look for grub.conf, grub.boot, boot.grub, you get the idea.  

Find the stanza with the partition you want to boot into, and change the number to either 1 or 0, depending on the grub you use.  It is probably 1, though, for the newer grub versions. You should not need to run update-grub, as you would need to be chrooted to myroot.  You should not need to edit grub chrooted to myroot.  

Step 4 is to reboot and cross your fingers.  If it still doesn't boot, repeat these steps and double check your grub stanzas. 

I think this will get you across the finish line.  Your stuff is still there, grub just needs to know where it is.

Bruce

 

On Nov 20, 2017 1:21 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

HELP, I got a big problem!  I had 3 partitions, I deleted the one with Mint, and now my ubuntu 16.04 wont' boot. get this error: no such partition. entering rescue mode...grub rescue>

I researched online but, man this is way over my head. This is one thing I found but I've learned the hard way not to do commands when you don't understand what you're doing....like the post I followed to delete a partition—which never mentioned loosing the boot info!!!

Working off boot DVD, I used gpart to delete the Mint partition, then resized the ubuntu 16.04 to include that partition, but got a message that to complete the resize might injure the boot info, so I clicked on undue the resize. But, when I tried to boot got the grub rescue prompt.

anyway, there seems to be a lot of different ways to do this according to the posts I have researched, all kinds of complicated commands etc that I have no understanding of. I also will want to either delete or downsize the partition with ubuntu 14 on it. I think part of the problem might be that 16.04 was the last partition i added. On the gpart menu it is on the right of the box/graph that shows the relative size of the partition....

Can anyone walk me through this? I really need my computer back! Sure would hate to have to reformat the HD and reinstall everything!

Thanks,

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Charles Breaux <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, I did figure out...

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:

Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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HELP,
I got a big problem!  I had 3 partitions, I deleted the one with
Mint, and now my ubuntu 16.04 wont' boot. get this error: no such

HELP, I got a big problem!  I had 3 partitions, I deleted the one with Mint, and now my ubuntu 16.04 wont' boot. get this error: no such partition. entering rescue mode...grub rescue>

I researched online but, man this is way over my head. This is one thing I found but I've learned the hard way not to do commands when you don't understand what you're doing....like the post I followed to delete a partition—which never mentioned loosing the boot info!!!

Working off boot DVD, I used gpart to delete the Mint partition, then resized the ubuntu 16.04 to include that partition, but got a message that to complete the resize might injure the boot info, so I clicked on undue the resize. But, when I tried to boot got the grub rescue prompt.

anyway, there seems to be a lot of different ways to do this according to the posts I have researched, all kinds of complicated commands etc that I have no understanding of. I also will want to either delete or downsize the partition with ubuntu 14 on it. I think part of the problem might be that 16.04 was the last partition i added. On the gpart menu it is on the right of the box/graph that shows the relative size of the partition....

Can anyone walk me through this? I really need my computer back! Sure would hate to have to reformat the HD and reinstall everything!

Thanks,

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Charles Breaux <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, I did figure out...

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:

Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

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I have the same issue. Somehow I messed up my loader and I always end up on the entering rescue mode...grub rescue line. This has been happening for some time now.
So to get around it when the motherboard splash screen comes up I hit F11 (or whatever other key gets you to the loader selection list) and select which partition you want to boot from. Works every time. Obviously, this is not a solution, it's a work-around but this way you can get back in the computer assuming that your root and/or the home partitions are intact.
Laco

I have the same issue. Somehow I messed up my loader and I always end up on the entering rescue mode...grub rescue line. This has been happening for some time now.

So to get around it when the motherboard splash screen comes up I hit F11 (or whatever other key gets you to the loader selection list) and select which partition you want to boot from. Works every time. Obviously, this is not a solution, it's a work-around but this way you can get back in the computer assuming that your root and/or the home partitions are intact.

Laco

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Charles Breaux <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

HELP, I got a big problem!  I had 3 partitions, I deleted the one with Mint, and now my ubuntu 16.04 wont' boot. get this error: no such partition. entering rescue mode...grub rescue>

I researched online but, man this is way over my head. This is one thing I found but I've learned the hard way not to do commands when you don't understand what you're doing....like the post I followed to delete a partition—which never mentioned loosing the boot info!!!

Working off boot DVD, I used gpart to delete the Mint partition, then resized the ubuntu 16.04 to include that partition, but got a message that to complete the resize might injure the boot info, so I clicked on undue the resize. But, when I tried to boot got the grub rescue prompt.

anyway, there seems to be a lot of different ways to do this according to the posts I have researched, all kinds of complicated commands etc that I have no understanding of. I also will want to either delete or downsize the partition with ubuntu 14 on it. I think part of the problem might be that 16.04 was the last partition i added. On the gpart menu it is on the right of the box/graph that shows the relative size of the partition....

Can anyone walk me through this? I really need my computer back! Sure would hate to have to reformat the HD and reinstall everything!

Thanks,

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Charles Breaux <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, I did figure out...

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:

Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

Rex Bouwense
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Thanks for your input Laco, but didn't work for me,
this is what worked:
Do you have a live DVD or flash drive? 

Thanks for your input Laco, but didn't work for me,

this is what worked:

Do you have a live DVD or flash drive?  If you do, boot from it and choose try Ubuntu.  Then open a terminal and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

Press enter after each line. This will install Boot Repair. Launch it from the menu and then select Recommended Repair
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/
Instructions are at that web site.  See Use Boot Repair.

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Laco K <laco.kuchar1@gmail.com> wrote:

I have the same issue. Somehow I messed up my loader and I always end up on the entering rescue mode...grub rescue line. This has been happening for some time now.

So to get around it when the motherboard splash screen comes up I hit F11 (or whatever other key gets you to the loader selection list) and select which partition you want to boot from. Works every time. Obviously, this is not a solution, it's a work-around but this way you can get back in the computer assuming that your root and/or the home partitions are intact.

Laco

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Charles Breaux <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

HELP, I got a big problem!  I had 3 partitions, I deleted the one with Mint, and now my ubuntu 16.04 wont' boot. get this error: no such partition. entering rescue mode...grub rescue>

I researched online but, man this is way over my head. This is one thing I found but I've learned the hard way not to do commands when you don't understand what you're doing....like the post I followed to delete a partition—which never mentioned loosing the boot info!!!

Working off boot DVD, I used gpart to delete the Mint partition, then resized the ubuntu 16.04 to include that partition, but got a message that to complete the resize might injure the boot info, so I clicked on undue the resize. But, when I tried to boot got the grub rescue prompt.

anyway, there seems to be a lot of different ways to do this according to the posts I have researched, all kinds of complicated commands etc that I have no understanding of. I also will want to either delete or downsize the partition with ubuntu 14 on it. I think part of the problem might be that 16.04 was the last partition i added. On the gpart menu it is on the right of the box/graph that shows the relative size of the partition....

Can anyone walk me through this? I really need my computer back! Sure would hate to have to reformat the HD and reinstall everything!

Thanks,

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Charles Breaux <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, I did figure out...

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:

Looks like the exfat module or drivers were uninstalled just reinstall em and should work 

On Nov 18, 2017 11:24 AM, "Charles Breaux" <chazbreaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Got this error message when I plugged in my ext back up drive. I've been using this drive with Ubuntu for several years, never had this problem before. Other drives with exfat still mount.

Ubuntu 16. anybody have a way to fix this without reformatting the disc and loosing all the data on the drive?  Thanks, charles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

The next CLUG sponsored installfest will be on 20 January 2018, 10-4pm at the University of Arizona South Learning Resource Center, 1140 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.  Make plans now to attend and assist others in installing and enjoying a Linux operating system.

We were able to reserve the Sierra Vista public library conference room for our Saturday meetings in 2018.  Therefore we will meet there on every 4th Saturday of each month in the calendar year 2018, 1:00-3:30pm.  Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend.

Rex Bouwense
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