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help request - broken grub (self.linux)

submitted 1 day ago by laserm to c/[email protected]

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Folks, I just fucked up. I have a void install and an old debian install. I resized the debian install, but I forgot I got grub installed there and now it's unbootable - respectively, it displays the grub rescue shell. Is there a way to somehow get back into void and reinstall grub from there?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

you can boot from a liveCD or USB, then mount the main OS, bind mount dev and proc, chroot into it and reconfigure/reinstall the boot loader

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

also, you should make backups and have a restore strategy that covers cases like this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

https://www.howtogeek.com/887757/how-to-use-grub-rescue-to-fix-linux/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

You could create a live usb on another device and then use chroot