Kernel? grub ? factory default?
by Rumple from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HRRT)
Hi everyone, I went to Mint forum for help but no one has helped me yet and it makes sense as i dont think mint is the problem. So i thought you guys could help. One guy over there thinks its something to do with the uuid
I am still somewhat new to this world and gave up 4 times trying to switch to linux. There is always something... I dont want to learn commands I am not interested in that I want to use the computer thats it. But I also refuse to go back to Microsoft or Cannonical. I dont want to debate this here. Anyway I chose LMDE and gonna stick to it.
With a multiple hard drives system (1 boot 2 storage) I had installed LMDE4 which run fine but then I wiped my storage drive( no dual boot). I dont know if the grub was on it but lmde wouldnt boot anymore, grub problems. So i just tried to reinstall lmde6 which didnt solve anything.
I tried repairboot. After install, when booting, I got stuck on the freaking black screen asking me to login TTY something where even putting the correct user and pass u set up at install wont work. No ctrl+alt+ F#whichever doesnt work. Someone somewhere suggested the environment wasnt installed. Anyway thats still not the problem.
Someone somewhere else suggested to tell grub which drive to load from by using commands that looked like "set boot=sda1 (the boot partition)something and then insmod something then normal" which didnt do anything because IT DIDNT KNOW WHAT NORMAL IS. Please remember I HAVE NOT CLUE what this all means... I just want the computer to run. Please forgive my frustration and exasperation. I went mint because I didnt want to bother with that stuff. Anyway, I took it upon myself to try more cause i dont want to go back to microsoft or canonical. But grub still isnt the problem I think.. see what follows...
Someone somewhere elselse said to go through recovery to go as root to edit a grub file or something like that..which ended with me not being able to do that because "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked"... I mean... All of this after ten hours for spelunking forums for solutions. I just want to smash the freaking pc at this point. I am sure all of this make sense to some of you but it does not for me.
So it dawn upon me that everything i read online was to try to salvage the information on the drive. I dont care, I already wiped everything. So why not just go to factory setting like when parts were new. Which is when I learned about kernel... they dont reset with cmos. I dont know how kernels works I dont care anymore. Normally I ld be eager to learn about it but I have so much time invested already on something so complex that im just brain dead now.
So what can I do to just get everything to factory so I cant just install LMDE6 and can finally go bang my head on the wall trying to install simpler stuff like non-free driver for my gpu and proton... PLEASE someone tell me the steps to just... get out of this mess once and for all...\
https://termbin.com/219u
I am still somewhat new to this world and gave up 4 times trying to switch to linux. There is always something... I dont want to learn commands I am not interested in that I want to use the computer thats it. But I also refuse to go back to Microsoft or Cannonical. I dont want to debate this here. Anyway I chose LMDE and gonna stick to it.
With a multiple hard drives system (1 boot 2 storage) I had installed LMDE4 which run fine but then I wiped my storage drive( no dual boot). I dont know if the grub was on it but lmde wouldnt boot anymore, grub problems. So i just tried to reinstall lmde6 which didnt solve anything.
I tried repairboot. After install, when booting, I got stuck on the freaking black screen asking me to login TTY something where even putting the correct user and pass u set up at install wont work. No ctrl+alt+ F#whichever doesnt work. Someone somewhere suggested the environment wasnt installed. Anyway thats still not the problem.
Someone somewhere else suggested to tell grub which drive to load from by using commands that looked like "set boot=sda1 (the boot partition)something and then insmod something then normal" which didnt do anything because IT DIDNT KNOW WHAT NORMAL IS. Please remember I HAVE NOT CLUE what this all means... I just want the computer to run. Please forgive my frustration and exasperation. I went mint because I didnt want to bother with that stuff. Anyway, I took it upon myself to try more cause i dont want to go back to microsoft or canonical. But grub still isnt the problem I think.. see what follows...
Someone somewhere elselse said to go through recovery to go as root to edit a grub file or something like that..which ended with me not being able to do that because "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked"... I mean... All of this after ten hours for spelunking forums for solutions. I just want to smash the freaking pc at this point. I am sure all of this make sense to some of you but it does not for me.
So it dawn upon me that everything i read online was to try to salvage the information on the drive. I dont care, I already wiped everything. So why not just go to factory setting like when parts were new. Which is when I learned about kernel... they dont reset with cmos. I dont know how kernels works I dont care anymore. Normally I ld be eager to learn about it but I have so much time invested already on something so complex that im just brain dead now.
So what can I do to just get everything to factory so I cant just install LMDE6 and can finally go bang my head on the wall trying to install simpler stuff like non-free driver for my gpu and proton... PLEASE someone tell me the steps to just... get out of this mess once and for all...\
https://termbin.com/219u