My grub boot partition belongs to another Linux install and I want to get it back.
by Frickymind from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6KW1S)
Hi,
I'm running Linux Mint 21.3.
Ok, so I wanted to get rid of Windows completely, so I deleted the windows partition and moved and resized my root and home partitions to take advantage of the freed space.
After rebooting I arrived at a grub screen with a > prompt and couldn't boot into Linux. I tried some terminal commands, Boot Repair multiple times, rescatux, and super grub disk. Nothing worked, the boot/efi partition seemed to be corrupted and none of the tools could write to it.
I eventually deleted and reformatted the boot/efi partition and installed another copy of Linux Mint to a new partition.
This installation used the correct boot/efi partition to install and I was able to get back into my main Linux Mint installation.
However, now I'm having some errors during updates and installs, especially around initramfs and initramfs-tools. The boot and logout processes now seem to take longer and show the commands running rather than the nice splash screens from before.
So, I'd like to bring control of the boot/efi partition back to my main Mint install to avoid any problems building up.
Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?
I'm running Linux Mint 21.3.
Ok, so I wanted to get rid of Windows completely, so I deleted the windows partition and moved and resized my root and home partitions to take advantage of the freed space.
After rebooting I arrived at a grub screen with a > prompt and couldn't boot into Linux. I tried some terminal commands, Boot Repair multiple times, rescatux, and super grub disk. Nothing worked, the boot/efi partition seemed to be corrupted and none of the tools could write to it.
I eventually deleted and reformatted the boot/efi partition and installed another copy of Linux Mint to a new partition.
This installation used the correct boot/efi partition to install and I was able to get back into my main Linux Mint installation.
However, now I'm having some errors during updates and installs, especially around initramfs and initramfs-tools. The boot and logout processes now seem to take longer and show the commands running rather than the nice splash screens from before.
So, I'd like to bring control of the boot/efi partition back to my main Mint install to avoid any problems building up.
Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?