Boot-repair Failure: Unable to locate package grub-common:i386 [closed]

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I am on a system dual-booting Windows and Debian (usually using the latter), and a recent Windows update appears to have wreaked havoc on the Debian boot system. I managed to boot Windows again, but not Linux. Following online suggestions, I created a Live USB of Ubuntu, and booted from that. Then I have installed and run the boot-repair utility. The utility instructs me to type several lines including



sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sda6" apt-get purge -y grub*-common grub-common:i386


To which I receive the error



E: Unable to locate package grub-common:i386


I am given to understand the issue may have to do with having UEFI vs BIOS (I believe I have UEFI), but do not understand this well. In any case I have subsequently run the boot-repair BootInfo Summary utility which created the following file http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/N8Z95MwB9p/



Any suggestions on how to fix this issue with boot-repair / the boot system would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks!



--Edit--
In what was probably an ill-advised move, I decided to try once again to solve the issue using online resources. From a Linux live disk I ran the following sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda I cancelled the second command partway through with CTRL-C when I saw it was trying to install i386 version. Here is a new pastebin, which I believe to be different (and worse..) than the previous one. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ZpCm38wmRc/




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closed as off-topic by DK Bose, Eric Carvalho, Pandya, user68186, N0rbert May 9 at 16:23


This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:


  • "This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow." – DK Bose, Eric Carvalho, Pandya, user68186, N0rbert
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  • Questions about Debian are welcome at unix.stackexchange.com but not supported her.
    – DK Bose
    May 8 at 11:07










  • Regardless of whether you are using Ubuntu or Debian, purging grub-common is a bad idea. Probably you want to run something like sudo grub-install /dev/sda ; sudo update-grub.
    – xiota
    May 8 at 11:15















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I am on a system dual-booting Windows and Debian (usually using the latter), and a recent Windows update appears to have wreaked havoc on the Debian boot system. I managed to boot Windows again, but not Linux. Following online suggestions, I created a Live USB of Ubuntu, and booted from that. Then I have installed and run the boot-repair utility. The utility instructs me to type several lines including



sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sda6" apt-get purge -y grub*-common grub-common:i386


To which I receive the error



E: Unable to locate package grub-common:i386


I am given to understand the issue may have to do with having UEFI vs BIOS (I believe I have UEFI), but do not understand this well. In any case I have subsequently run the boot-repair BootInfo Summary utility which created the following file http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/N8Z95MwB9p/



Any suggestions on how to fix this issue with boot-repair / the boot system would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks!



--Edit--
In what was probably an ill-advised move, I decided to try once again to solve the issue using online resources. From a Linux live disk I ran the following sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda I cancelled the second command partway through with CTRL-C when I saw it was trying to install i386 version. Here is a new pastebin, which I believe to be different (and worse..) than the previous one. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ZpCm38wmRc/




boot dual-boot grub2 uefi boot-repair




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closed as off-topic by DK Bose, Eric Carvalho, Pandya, user68186, N0rbert May 9 at 16:23


This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:


  • "This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow." – DK Bose, Eric Carvalho, Pandya, user68186, N0rbert
If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.












  • Questions about Debian are welcome at unix.stackexchange.com but not supported her.
    – DK Bose
    May 8 at 11:07










  • Regardless of whether you are using Ubuntu or Debian, purging grub-common is a bad idea. Probably you want to run something like sudo grub-install /dev/sda ; sudo update-grub.
    – xiota
    May 8 at 11:15













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up vote
2
down vote

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I am on a system dual-booting Windows and Debian (usually using the latter), and a recent Windows update appears to have wreaked havoc on the Debian boot system. I managed to boot Windows again, but not Linux. Following online suggestions, I created a Live USB of Ubuntu, and booted from that. Then I have installed and run the boot-repair utility. The utility instructs me to type several lines including



sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sda6" apt-get purge -y grub*-common grub-common:i386


To which I receive the error



E: Unable to locate package grub-common:i386


I am given to understand the issue may have to do with having UEFI vs BIOS (I believe I have UEFI), but do not understand this well. In any case I have subsequently run the boot-repair BootInfo Summary utility which created the following file http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/N8Z95MwB9p/



Any suggestions on how to fix this issue with boot-repair / the boot system would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks!



--Edit--
In what was probably an ill-advised move, I decided to try once again to solve the issue using online resources. From a Linux live disk I ran the following sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda I cancelled the second command partway through with CTRL-C when I saw it was trying to install i386 version. Here is a new pastebin, which I believe to be different (and worse..) than the previous one. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ZpCm38wmRc/




boot dual-boot grub2 uefi boot-repair




share|improve this question














I am on a system dual-booting Windows and Debian (usually using the latter), and a recent Windows update appears to have wreaked havoc on the Debian boot system. I managed to boot Windows again, but not Linux. Following online suggestions, I created a Live USB of Ubuntu, and booted from that. Then I have installed and run the boot-repair utility. The utility instructs me to type several lines including



sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sda6" apt-get purge -y grub*-common grub-common:i386


To which I receive the error



E: Unable to locate package grub-common:i386


I am given to understand the issue may have to do with having UEFI vs BIOS (I believe I have UEFI), but do not understand this well. In any case I have subsequently run the boot-repair BootInfo Summary utility which created the following file http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/N8Z95MwB9p/



Any suggestions on how to fix this issue with boot-repair / the boot system would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks!



--Edit--
In what was probably an ill-advised move, I decided to try once again to solve the issue using online resources. From a Linux live disk I ran the following sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda I cancelled the second command partway through with CTRL-C when I saw it was trying to install i386 version. Here is a new pastebin, which I believe to be different (and worse..) than the previous one. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ZpCm38wmRc/





boot dual-boot grub2 uefi boot-repair





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closed as off-topic by DK Bose, Eric Carvalho, Pandya, user68186, N0rbert May 9 at 16:23


This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:


  • "This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow." – DK Bose, Eric Carvalho, Pandya, user68186, N0rbert
If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.




closed as off-topic by DK Bose, Eric Carvalho, Pandya, user68186, N0rbert May 9 at 16:23


This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:


  • "This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow." – DK Bose, Eric Carvalho, Pandya, user68186, N0rbert
If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.











  • Questions about Debian are welcome at unix.stackexchange.com but not supported her.
    – DK Bose
    May 8 at 11:07










  • Regardless of whether you are using Ubuntu or Debian, purging grub-common is a bad idea. Probably you want to run something like sudo grub-install /dev/sda ; sudo update-grub.
    – xiota
    May 8 at 11:15

















  • Questions about Debian are welcome at unix.stackexchange.com but not supported her.
    – DK Bose
    May 8 at 11:07










  • Regardless of whether you are using Ubuntu or Debian, purging grub-common is a bad idea. Probably you want to run something like sudo grub-install /dev/sda ; sudo update-grub.
    – xiota
    May 8 at 11:15
















Questions about Debian are welcome at unix.stackexchange.com but not supported her.
– DK Bose
May 8 at 11:07




Questions about Debian are welcome at unix.stackexchange.com but not supported her.
– DK Bose
May 8 at 11:07












Regardless of whether you are using Ubuntu or Debian, purging grub-common is a bad idea. Probably you want to run something like sudo grub-install /dev/sda ; sudo update-grub.
– xiota
May 8 at 11:15





Regardless of whether you are using Ubuntu or Debian, purging grub-common is a bad idea. Probably you want to run something like sudo grub-install /dev/sda ; sudo update-grub.
– xiota
May 8 at 11:15
















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