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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asked May 8 at 11:01
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closed as off-topic by DK Bose, Eric Carvalho, Pandya, user68186, N0rbert May 9 at 16:23
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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
asked May 8 at 11:01
ERosenberg
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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
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, purginggrub-commonis a bad idea. Probably you want to run something likesudo 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
asked May 8 at 11:01
ERosenberg
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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
asked May 8 at 11:01
ERosenberg
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edited May 8 at 17:46
asked May 8 at 11:01
ERosenberg
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asked May 8 at 11:01
ERosenberg
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asked May 8 at 11:01
ERosenberg
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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
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
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, purginggrub-commonis a bad idea. Probably you want to run something likesudo grub-install /dev/sda ; sudo update-grub.
– xiota
May 8 at 11:15
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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, purginggrub-commonis a bad idea. Probably you want to run something likesudo 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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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-commonis a bad idea. Probably you want to run something likesudo grub-install /dev/sda ; sudo update-grub.– xiota
May 8 at 11:15