I have ubuntu 18.04 installed on a system(single os, no dual boot) which refused to boot after I had to do a hard restart and sent me to the grub_rescue prompt.
ls on grub_rescue prompt lists
(hd0) (hd0,msdos7) (hd0,msdos6) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos1) of which (hd0,msdos7) and (hd0,msdos1) were ext2 and others were unknown filesystem.
I tried setting the path and prefix, etc as suggested in solutions I found on this and other forums which doesn't fix the issue and now doing ls on grub_rescue shows me just (hd0) (hd0,msdos7) and now I can not see my partitions even in fdisk -l.
Running boot repair on live session gives me the following:
boot-repair-4ppa203 [20230427_1339]
============================== Boot Info Summary ===============================
=> No known boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
sdb: ___________________________________________________________________________
File system: iso9660
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg
================================ 0 OS detected =================================
================================ Host/Hardware =================================
CPU architecture: 64-bit
Video: Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller from Intel Corporation
Live-session OS is Ubuntu 64-bit (Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS, bionic, x86_64)
===================================== UEFI =====================================
BIOS/UEFI firmware: 4.6.5 from American Megatrends Inc.
This live-session is in Legacy/BIOS/CSM mode (not in EFI mode).
============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________
Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________
Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________
Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________
fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________
Disk sdb: 28.7 GiB, 30752000000 bytes, 60062500 sectors
Disk identifier: 0x4c050c47
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sdb1 * 0 4910399 4910400 2.3G 0 Empty
sdb2 4840192 4844991 4800 2.4M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________
sda:500GB:scsi:512:4096:unknown:ATA ST500DM002-1BD14:;
sdb:30.8GB:scsi:512:512:unknown:SanDisk Ultra:;
blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________
NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL
sda
├─sda1
├─sda2
├─sda5 swap b86ba29a-dd33-44f6-878d-9d2f507ff74d
├─sda6
└─sda7
sdb iso9660 2021-09-15-20-41-59-00 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS amd64
├─sdb1 iso9660 2021-09-15-20-41-59-00 4c050c47-01 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS amd64
└─sdb2 vfat 7E74-30B0 4c050c47-02 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS amd64
Mount points (filtered): _______________________________________________________
Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 0 100% /cdrom
Mount options (filtered): ______________________________________________________
====================== sdb/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) =======================
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==================== sdb: Location of files loaded by Grub =====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
?? = ?? boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =========================
Unknown MBR on /dev/sda
Unknown BootLoader on sdb
Suggested repair: ______________________________________________________________
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility would not act on the boot.
Is there any way I can fix this without reinstalling the OS?
Any help is really appreciated.
