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Re: Linux Mint 21.1

From Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mint
Subject Re: Linux Mint 21.1
Date 2022-12-28 14:09 +0100
Message-ID <tohf64$d5kr$1@solani.org> (permalink)
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Jeff Layman wrote:
> On 28/12/2022 08:16, Monsieur wrote:

>> Well I timeshifted back to Vanessa. The restoring process was long but
>> smooth and ended with a message saying that the restore was succesful.
>> However, when I rebooted the computer I was greeted by the famous "grub
>> rescue" mode - you know that command-line mode where you can do
>> absolutely nothing useful.
>>
>> Did a boot repair (twice!) using a live Mint XFCE, but that didn't help
>> and I kept booting into rescue mode. Only when I switched the boot order
>> of my 2 ssd's in the BIOS, I got an incomplete "Ubuntu" menu at startup.
>> I booted into that, saw that it was indeed the right partition and then
>> did a sudo update-grub there, which brought everything back to normal.
>>
>> Lesson learned: Timeshift isn't as reliable as I thought it was.
> 
> It's not, unfortunately, a new issue:
> <https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=370085>
> And it's not limited to Mint:
> <https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stuck-on-grub-rescue-after-timeshift-restore/29930> 
> 
> (Is that similar to your problem? Is it more a problem with Grub than 
> Timeshift, or perhaps an interaction between them? It's all way above my 
> pay grade...)

Those are interesting articles thanks. Yes, my problem was similar, 
although in my case I got a "error: symbol 'grub_verify_string' not 
found" right before the grub rescue mode. I didn't pay much attention at 
first, because I was pretty sure Boot Repair would fix this, as it has 
fixed booting problems a few times before in the past. But not this time.

I then got the idea to try switching the boot order of my disks in the 
BIOS because I thought that maybe grub was looking for that particular 
string on the wrong disk. It was just a wild guess, but it worked.

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Linux Mint 21.1 Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-08 17:04 +0000
  Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-12-08 09:53 -0800
    Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> - 2022-12-08 13:50 -0500
      Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-12-08 12:08 -0800
        Re: Linux Mint 21.1 yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> - 2022-12-08 23:07 +0100
          Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-12-08 14:34 -0800
            Re: Linux Mint 21.1 dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> - 2022-12-09 00:02 +0100
    Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-08 18:59 +0000
      Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-12-08 12:10 -0800
        Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Rob H <rob@despammer.com> - 2022-12-09 17:41 +0000
          Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> - 2022-12-09 13:07 -0500
            Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Rob H <rob@despammer.com> - 2022-12-10 13:01 +0000
            Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> - 2022-12-11 22:42 +0000
  Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-08 20:25 +0000
  Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> - 2022-12-20 18:17 -0500
  Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Yrrah <Yrrah-aolm@aolm.invalid> - 2022-12-21 15:01 +0100
    Re: Linux Mint 21.1 yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> - 2022-12-21 21:31 +0100
      Re: Linux Mint 21.1 yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> - 2022-12-22 08:11 +0100
      Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Yrrah <Yrrah-aolm@aolm.invalid> - 2022-12-22 14:18 +0100
        Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> - 2022-12-22 09:28 -0500
    Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2022-12-23 20:42 +0100
      Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-23 20:10 +0000
        Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Mike Bott <mbott001@gmail.com> - 2022-12-23 15:23 -0500
          Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Nic <Nic@none.net> - 2022-12-23 15:36 -0500
            Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Mike Bott <mbott001@gmail.com> - 2022-12-23 15:54 -0500
        Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2022-12-28 09:16 +0100
          Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-28 08:51 +0000
            Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2022-12-28 14:09 +0100
          Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Nic <Nic@none.net> - 2022-12-28 07:04 -0500
            Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2022-12-28 14:09 +0100
              Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Nic <Nic@none.net> - 2022-12-28 08:24 -0500
                Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> - 2022-12-29 04:25 +0000
                Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Nic <Nic@none.net> - 2022-12-29 07:23 -0500
                Re: Linux Mint 21.1 mechanic <mechanic@example.net> - 2022-12-30 11:44 +0000
                Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Nic <Nic@none.net> - 2022-12-30 09:03 -0500
                Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> - 2022-12-30 15:37 -0500
                Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2022-12-30 09:59 -0500
                Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> - 2022-12-31 08:48 +0000
                Re: Linux Mint 21.1 Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2023-01-04 21:28 +0100

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