1

I have gone through a lot of questions and answers related to grub rescue but I am having a different problem which I am not able to understand.

As per some of the answers, I tried following steps to resolve this problem -

  1. First of all I used ls command to get all the partitions which in my case were (hd0), (hd0,msdos5), (hdo,msdos1), (hd1) & (hd1,msdos1)

  2. Out of the above 5 partitions, I got Filesystem is ext2 message for (hd0,msdos1) drive.

  3. As per some of the answers provided in ask ubuntu & stack exchange I tried to set the root & prefix using (hd0,msdos1) drive (which I found using ls command)

  4. While setting prefix I realised that the /boot/grub directory does not exist in selected drive (hd0,msdos1).

  5. As a result of this when I try to fire insmod normal command, grub rescue gives an error saying /boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found

  6. Apart from this, I tried using bootable USB drive with ubuntu 14, 16, 17, 18 & even windows OS but I always ended up in grub rescue window.

This leaves me with following questions -

  1. Am I setting a wrong drive as root drive (provided this is the only ext2 drive among 5 enlisted drives) ?

  2. Is there a way of including the /boot/grub folder in the root directory so that I can run `insmod normal command ?

Rui F Ribeiro
  • 56,709
  • 26
  • 150
  • 232
planet_hunter
  • 111

2 Answers2

1

As the boot partition is mounted on on top of /boot once the system boots, you wont find there /boot/grub.

The directory you are searching is /grub in the boot partition.

As for mounting a full system, you will have to mount the / first, then /boot on top of it.

Actually, if you are in a live DVD of the same architecture, you often mount:

/mnt -> root partition
/mnt/boot -> boot partition
/mnt/proc /proc
/mnt/sys /sys
/mnt/dev /dev

And then do a chroot /mnt

As for loading kernel modules, I would load them from the live booting system.

Rui F Ribeiro
  • 56,709
  • 26
  • 150
  • 232
0
ls (hdo,msdos1)

You said this gives Filesystem is ext2.

set boot=(hdo,msdos1)  
set prefix=(hdo,msdos1)/boot/grub
insmod normal
normal

Then boot into kali open terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall grub-pc
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo update-grub
Yilmaz
  • 349