Grub rescue screen shows up after booting fails -SOLVED (Linux Mint / Ubuntu)

 

 

If your grub fails to identify the location of boot files in your system, you may confront a ‘grub rescue’ black screen. And thus your OS (mint / ubuntu) fails to boot.

[Please note that, if you happened to format your boot partition accidentally, then this technique won’t work for you. The only possibility then will be relying on backups previously made, or re-installation of OS.]

So on grub rescue mode you will be seeing a black screen with :

Code:
grub rescue>

You need to type: ls

Hit ENTER

Now it will show,

Code:
grub rescue>  ls  
(hd0,4) (hd0,3) (hd0,2) (hd0,1)

These show the list of hard disk partitions you do have. Any one of these might contain your boot file information for the grub. So we need to try each of these, one-by-one.


So type Code:
grub rescue>  ls (hd0,4)/boot

If the one you chose is the boot file partition, then it will show,

grub rescue>  ls (hd0,4)/boot
... some kind of 'not found' message

And if the chosen one is your boot partition, then

grub rescue>  ls (hd0,4)/boot
... grub ... initrd.img-2.6.32-33-generic ... vmlinuz-2.6.32-33-generic


To manually boot from the ‘grub rescue>’ prompt . Type Code:
grub rescue>  set root=(hd0,4)/boot  
grub rescue>  insmod linux  
grub rescue>  linux (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-33-generic  
grub rescue>  initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-33-generic  
grub rescue>  boot


Now you will boot without the grub rescue prompt.

After booting to Ubuntu / Mint

Open TERMINAL (ctrl + alt +T)

Type Code:
sudo grub-install /dev/sda

And you are done