GRUB Rescue and Repair on Linux | Rescue and Repair your Bootloader! (Ubuntu)

[@vidamate09]

Holy moly, last time I had to fix GRUB, I had to do reinstall of GRUB and it took nearly a whole day (and a lost previous install of linux) to get it working! You brought that time down to 20 mins here! THANK YOU so much!

[@vidamate09]

It would have been faster but I was too goofy to write down the correct partition the first time >~

[@sebastiangonzales46]

Don't forget to use timeshift, it will save you hours of fixing it the next time it happens

[@DanielRojas-pf1pw]

I’m definitely feeling waaaaay less intimidated by Grub. This sits better than just blindly following stack overflow commands. Thanks!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad to hear it, no problem

[@cybernit3]

@@SavvyNik I just installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and I have this problem. This is a 3 years old video, that gave me an idea what is going on. I tried what you say but I have a problem when listing the partitions at the Grub Rescue (version 2.12) terminal prompt. Ok, I have 2 SSDS both 2 TB. hd0 = Windows 11 hd1 = Ubuntu 24.04 LTS grub> ls (hd1,gpt1)/ efi. System Volume Information grub> ls (hd1,gpt2)/ error unknown filesystem I assume my root is on (hd1,gpt2)/ but I can't list it. Perhaps you know how to solve this for the new Ubuntu; thanks if you can. ps: It is a shame after I installed Ubuntu 24.04 it seemed to work good just when I rebooted I get this grub rescue screen. I took notes on your old video, but there is probably changes and no longer works.

[@bobkamau67]

Of all the numerous videos I tried watching all day. You saved me in less than 7minutes. Thank you man

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome! Glad things worked out.

[@sudhanshu_1]

Bro😢 I have installed Ubuntu multiple times and then removed it due to its freeze issue and now I am again installing it but it is not loading the GUI, my friend say that it's old bash file is remain there that is preventing from installing new bash file that prevent Ubuntu from installing?😢. Please reply and help me!🙏and I am trying to delete the old bash file but I don't know how to do that

[@fatimak6440]

I want to cry 😢. you saved my life's work. I had EVERYTHING on this ubuntu machine that was kept away for a year cuz I used my work laptop and had no use for mine. took it out tonight to revise my old work and lo and behold, did not load to Ubuntu, rather a grub that I've never seen before and the least bit familiar. went through 4 videos which were garbage without explanations about why they were running the commands they were. your video helped. I cannot thank you enough. 🙇‍♀️

[@SavvyNik]

I’m happy to hear you were able to recover :) and that the video helped!

[@fatimak6440]

bahahah, im here AGAIN!! why does this keep happening to me! ALWAYS come to this video for the rescue!

[@voidwanderer7138]

I have tried a bunch of tutorials, that just weren't working. This one worked perfectly, thank you.

[@markericbregonia7644]

I thought that boot would end my life in my studies because I didn't know how to fix it. But because of you Brother, I was able to fix that boot on Ubuntu on my laptop and the files I was making for my studies were not lost. Thank you very much brother for this video, my tasks and files that need to be submitted can now be submitted.

[@SavvyNik]

Glad to hear this epic fix ;)

[@sudhanshu_1]

Bro😢 I have installed Ubuntu multiple times and then removed it due to its freeze issue and now I am again installing it but it is not loading the GUI, my friend say that it's old bash file is remain there that is preventing from installing new bash file that prevent Ubuntu from installing?😢. Please reply and help me!🙏

[@stanciudragos4900]

This is amazing, I messed up some ubuntu install too and I was just messing around (I had badly identified the partition until I found this video). Thanks for this mate! :D

[@MillennialMidwest]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you once more. Man, I thought my hard drive was cooked until you came to the rescue. Smashing that like button!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad things worked out

[@UzairFareedFX]

I wasted a lot of time in watching different videos that didn't help me But this one saved me Thanks bro for your efforts 😘

[@karmelade]

DUDE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. As someone new to linux I made the mistake of setting my root partition to 20GB. Thankfully I keep my USB with me in case I need to boot into it so I was able to resize it. Upon restarting I got this screen and had no idea what to do since the boot repair tool wasn't working and this fixed everything! Thank you for preventing what would have been hours of confusion and frustration

[@mohawk14616]

I have watched so many videos and strained to understand the procedure let alone the language. You kind sir are a teaching genius. This was the BEST, most followable, most understanding and concise. I applaud you. Thank you so much for this, it helped me like you would not believe. Thumbs up!

[@SavvyNik]

You are most welcome :) glad it helped!

[@sudhanshu_1]

Bro😢 I have installed Ubuntu multiple times and then removed it due to its freeze issue and now I am again installing it but it is not loading the GUI, my friend say that it's old bash file is remain there that is preventing from installing new bash file that prevent Ubuntu from installing?😢. Please reply and help me!🙏

[@SamuelBarbosa-xg8sw]

Great job!! A big thanks from a braziliam guy living on Portugal!!

[@princegbadamosi6805]

The right video, I've been doing this for past 2 days now and this is the only video that worked. He explained everything ❤️ thank you sir

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome! Glad you liked the video :)

[@rangersmyth]

Me too! Glad I found this video!

[@jamesthom2450]

I want to say THANKS! without you I never would have gotten the system loaded

[@SavvyNik]

Glad things worked out

[@zacktodd4699]

Awesome video, couldn't get a clear answer from online forums and within 10 min I'm no longer intimidated by grub shell :)))

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it helped!

[@SamusLovesMilk]

I got this problem today when I installed Mint on my desktop PC with three different drives. I previously had Debian installed on my larger SSD, but installed Mint on my smaller one. So I did that and formatted both my other large disks and mounted them, and GRUB freaked out sending me to rescue on boot. Managed to start it, but got tired of having to do it each time. The part I missed to do was the last one, grub-install, so thanks for that! Now everything works

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you got things fixed

[@bojackhorseman9028]

Took a while to get to the point, but you know what? It stretched my brain fibers and I learned something! Now I know what to do in the future. Thank you so much.

[@SavvyNik]

Love to hear it! Glad you learned something new

[@sebastiangonzales46]

Holy moly it works!!! man i've been following your tutorials since 2021 and you always have the answer. Thanks!!

[@arpitgupta1765]

thanks man helped me.. better than reinstalling the whole OS

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it helped

[@sumansadhukhan1845]

I'm facing the problem while installing prime os (An Android os) first time via bootable usb flash drive... What to do? Kindly help me

[@dileepkumaraol]

After tried so many sites, finally got solved by watching this video. Thank you so much 😊

[@SavvyNik]

Glad to hear it. No problem

[@normanjames33]

im not experienced in computers at all and got so scared when it wouldnt turn but this fixed it and i genuinely feel proud😭thank you

[@SavvyNik]

Great job, no problem

[@suguop123]

Its not work in my lap 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@shrutinarang4779]

Actually my laptop got shut down suddenly due to power failure… I have dual booting for my hp laptop… where half partition is given to windows and half to ubuntu.. I cant find my partition name… I tried grub>ls (proc) (hd0) (cd0) error: failure reading sector 0*0 from ‘hd0’ . error:failure reading sector 0*0 from ‘hd0’. How to resolve this issue?

[@joyebot7371]

You are the best. I had to use translate subtitles to understand. IT is a universal thing. Thank you very much tor sharing. You save me a lot of ressources

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome!

[@ThatRandomLinuxUser]

Thanks you saved my Linux mint install, the context is I tried to install Ubuntu and try it for a while after already having installed Linux mint. Once I installed it, Ubuntu took over grub and so I decided to boot into mint after I was done with Ubuntu and removed the partition, after that I got put into the grub command line after deleting it. Follow the tutorial and saved grub again. I'm downloading this video to my phone so in case this happens again while my Internet is gone I can rely on this.

[@SavvyNik]

You’re welcome glad you managed to save the system

[@rams509]

I felt very bad that I ruined my laptop. You are a GOD! Thanks a lot!

[@santiagotorresjaramillo8]

Maaaan you ducking saved my life! My job is pending on razor’s edge and I had this problem about to start working tomorrow. You saved me! PD: i didn’t have that boot/ directory mine was (hd0,gpt2)/grub

[@SavvyNik]

Glad things worked out

[@Tubeytime]

I'll never understand why developers don't just document their own work. Thank you very much.

[@HoygaNygah]

As a not so savvy man, running multiple OS side by side, fwsetup saved my life.

[@harshsajla521]

After watching so many videos and reading articles Finally this Worked for me Thank you soo much ❤️✨

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you finally got things settled

[@anthonysmith9611]

Hey SavvyNik, Thank you for helping me fix my dual boot for kali linux after upgrading to Windows 11. i tried to fix this for a few days till i came across your video and first try it worked. THANK YOU SO MUCH BROTHER. I have liked the video and subscribed and will direct people to you that i know are having this issue. Your the man.

[@SavvyNik]

Awesome to hear Anthony! Glad you got things fixed, and thanks for supporting the channel.

[@prameshtimilsina599]

@SavvyNik After i do > insmod normal It says '/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/normal.mod' not found @Savy

[@rangersmyth]

THANK YOU !!!!! This was perfect. I added URL to my source list and it asked me if I wanted to update a file or leave it as default, I said yes thinking it was leaving it as default. TWO DAYS LATER >>> I m running Kali-Linux on my Windows Laptop, on the D drive partitioned with ParrotOS and also storage from Windows on the D-Drive. Use G-Parted to back up your image to a spare external HDD.

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it helped!

[@rangersmyth]

When I reboot I still get the grub error, but if I change the booting order in the bios to ParrotOS, then it will load its own GRUB boot loader and I then can see my Kali image there, I can click on it and I can get into Kali from ParrotOS grub. I'm afraid to uninstall grub in case it does something to ParrotOS. I will load to ParrotOS boot screen with the options, then I will pick Kali, two more steps but I can work it.

[@sifatakon2355]

Right Video at the right time !!!

[@SavvyNik]

Awesome to hear! Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already =)

[@Schaumpubs2010]

Hello, this is the best guide for this problem so far!! Mega Super explained in the terminal. Nothing found in German yet. English is important, especially for Linux. Ok, as a Winjunky I will have to do more Linux, too much comfort makes you dependent! The future belongs to Linux for everyone who wants it!! Thanks for the input, greetings from Western Germany Loddar near Nato Airfiled Ramstein

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you enjoyed the vid!

[@agnosticmanquestionsall2409]

I installed Ubuntu 22 dual boot with windows11 on main ssd, Ubuntu on an external HDD plugged via usb. All went well till I rebooted and got the Grub screen. I'll follow these steps and hope it fixes. I don't get why Grub gets confused when its an external drive :( . Sadly this doesn't work with external drive Ubuntu as the drive gpt of usb drive doesn't show in the list at all

[@JimenezLisbeth]

Did you solve it?

[@hamzamunim]

I followed along but after typing "normal" nothing is happening Is it because before doing this fix I was trying to get out of the GNU Grub 2.0 so I accidently chose the residual boot file as my boot file of my previously installed windows OS?

[@coder_aditya9567]

Hey I am having same issue...how do you fix that

[@MADNESS-y2w]

Thanks man you really deserved that subscribe

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it helped!

[@Nikolaos-Gkionis]

Proper saving the day, mate. Thanks!!

[@uzumakI.D.Itachi]

It worked saved my day Thanks man great work keep it up

[@krisz-wx5zh]

hi SavvyNik, i have a question: after typing the last command ''normal' in 6:08 what is the next step ? what should i press to exit from grub console and reboot?thanks

[@unfrifrosty1584]

were you able to find the solution? mine still shows grub> _

[@informativemallu5152]

It should be "enter" right? 🤔

[@RyadChibob]

..

[@joanbrito7465]

You are the best. Thank you for uploading this video, you saved my day.

[@SavvyNik]

Glad things worked out. No problem.

[@krgkrmb]

It went well up to insmod normal, after typing normal next, mine just goes back to the grub prompt.

[@akhiakhil8046]

Same problem

[@jeremiaschalave3922]

same hope you solved it

[@techbydami379]

Same here. Any solution yt..?

[@ayannacalvert2899]

Help me. I did all of that but as soon as I do that second to last part (insmod normal) and hit enter it gives me the same error message in the beginning

[@SebastianMartinez-nw5gm]

Thank you so much for your help, best regrets from Colombia. You saved my laptop's information. Really helpful your information, lot of things to study now, really interesting information. See you soon here, finally a found a valuable information and formation source brother. You're a Crack 🤯🎖️

[@SavvyNik]

Love to hear it

[@sujaysubhash8804]

Ohh thanks a lot bro❤️ it really works😍 Dear users, Use msdos, if there is no gpt

[@SavvyNik]

Great 👍

[@hhuithzil]

hi after the grub rescue step when I type “insmod normal” i got this error: symbol ‘grub_file_filters’ not found And then nothing happens, any thoughts?

[@chetmyers7041]

11:45 Great video for a beginner Linux user. Thanks!

[@johnmcgiv1]

Many thanks for the video will try tomorrow as I have struggled all day trying to fix this 2 new installs win10 and Linux Mint on 2 sata hdd’s worked straight away. Then that dreaded grub appeared spent hours just trying to fix it. Trying to learn Linux not to familiar with Windows either too old memory not as good as it used to be your vid will hopefully solve the problem, thanks again for an excellent presentation.

[@SavvyNik]

No problem, good luck

[@Aj-77HB]

Quick solution, worked great for me. Thank you very much

[@GeniusPsycho-RB]

Thanks a lot ❤❤❤❤ lots of love from Nepal🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

[@vrindrajvanshi6687]

Amazing video helped alot ❤

[@sumeyyeeroglu4386]

Bro you're a life Saver! Thank you very much. Really you helped me a lot 💐💐💐💐

[@SavvyNik]

No problem, glad you found the video helpful!

[@radostindimitrov3871]

God damn after doing this for a whole day researching you helped thank you !

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome

[@jypxs]

set prefix=(hd0,gtp2)/boot/grub set root=(hd0,gtp2) insmod normal normal i demonstrated these steps for the wrong partition that belongs to windows. and windows got stuck in "preparing windows..." screen as i tried logging in. however i fixed the grub later. and windows seems like doing fine. do you think i damaged anything on this partition of windows by using these commands? (it did redirect me to freedos screen as i hit enter after all these 4 steps btw)

[@btmg4828]

OMG thank you i wasted 4 hours of my life until i found this video

[@tonasjones2461]

Thank you for the Help, you just earned another sub!! 🥰

[@SavvyNik]

Glad to have you following

[@funtube7226]

I've done the same thing in proxmox after the normal command which occurs it returns to the initial grub> display

[@GuerrillaFilms1]

For some reason I'm still getting this problem. I have run the grub install and selected sdb and got the same "installation finished" result but I still have the grub screen.

[@snaddenbraganza5041]

same here

[@douglasjarnagan3835]

Thank you. I had been putting this off. You made this easy.

[@SavvyNik]

Glad to hear it no problem

[@AmalMathewTech]

This video helped me to come out from grub , thank you 😊

[@SavvyNik]

Glad things worked out

[@gauravbhardwajgamerz7984]

Bro it works thanks a lot bro love you from india

[@Kla2024-s5t]

When I do the ls I see the HDD’s but then it shows errors after words. After trying the hd0 gtp1 etc nothing comes up. I see Linus on my mac Home Screen, but nothing is inside that drive.

[@ajithsebastian02457]

When I type 'ls' and click enter I only have (hd0) (hd1) only this much is showing 😭

[@AcidiFy574]

BTW, I'm trying to run a linux distro called ANTIX linux completely off of the USB Should I install it on the flash drive or should I just use persistence?? What are the pros& cons of each& which is more better in your opinion???

[@SavvyNik]

IMO the best is installing on the USB directly. This takes away any mistakes a 3rd part program can make while creating persistence. Also then you don't have to deal with the fact that the persistent USB might have been meant as an installation image. The benefit of a persistent USB? Maybe that it's just easier to setup.

[@AcidiFy574]

@@SavvyNik MXlinux& ANTIX has their own built in imagewriter

[@twambililemwalwanda5516]

Got an error after typing " insmod normal" it said /boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod. not found. Please help. And i am using (hd0,ms,dos5)

[@SavvyNik]

Seems like grub is looking for the normal.mod file and cannot find it in the partition that you specified. Here's a post on some things you can try. askubuntu.com/questions/266429/error-file-grub-i386-pc-normal-mod-not-found

[@twambililemwalwanda5516]

@@SavvyNik thank you

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome. Good luck!

[@Diresilver]

Thank you holy moly this saved me, I thought I had to install my Linux Mint again.

[@Clyde6790pYoutube]

Mine had a corrupted file system because I fully remember my partition number and it says "unknown filesystem" What do I do

[@allgouda4u]

I found the only partition that has the linux I downloaded but when I enter: ls (hd1,gpt2)/home/ I get a error message saying file home/ not found

[@bonjezUE4Game]

I LOVE YOU, YOU SAVED ME FROM THIS PROBLEM❤❤❤

[@cruzcreez65]

Worked nice one🎉

[@lebriel5464]

Thankfully the command works, but after doing the last steps it keeps booting me to windows even though i changed the bios prorities, and the grub rescue screen doesnt go away, what should i do?

[@folksurvival]

The insmod normal command doesn't work. The file is not found.

[@43432324]

Thanks. Win+Ubuntu+CommodoreOS working together now.

[@guntherwallendorf1940]

Hi SavvyNik thanks for the great tutorials. I followed your instructions in the video up to the 6: 15 when I pressed enter I get another error message. Do you have a video for this one? "end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"

[@SavvyNik]

Sadly I don't, looks like you might have to do some googling. You can also use a USB live image so that you can mount into your failed system.

[@rangersmyth]

Hey Gunther, Did you fix the problem?

[@guntherwallendorf1940]

@@rangersmyth sorted thanks for coming back to me

[@rangersmyth]

@@guntherwallendorf1940 😁

[@_newby]

Hi I have repeated all steps, wthout any errors and finaly I got: "No Bootable device" (Acer notebook). But ... when I plug in the external USB drive on which I have the Ubuntu installation image, I get the GRUB menu and choose: "Boot from next volume", then I choose my laptop drive where I have Ubuntu installed and everything works fine until the next restart. In other words, without an external drive connected, I can't run Ubuntu from my laptop's hard drive. Any ideas?

[@_newby]

one more info - in bios I have the correct boot order

[@МишаА-й5с]

Thank you very much!!! This video safe more time for me!!!

[@arvindkumarsharma4860]

Hello SavvyNik, I have followed all steps as you suggested in the video in my case after ls command I found (proc) (memdisk) (hd0) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,gpt1) after that I followed steps mention below 1.set prefix=(hd0,gpt1)/boot/grub 2.set root=(hd0,gpt1) 3.insmod normal 4.normal but after that still i have stuck on same please suggest

[@hunteredwards5558]

did you find the answer to this?

[@skooliozstylez]

Same thing for me. Followed the steps it just refreshes the grub screen and does not boot into OS. (Im trying to boot from USB using kali Linux live)

[@pedro.martinezs2705]

​@@skooliozstylezsame, please tell me if you found a solution or an alternative. I would appreciate it very much. Ty

[@RamaKrishna-qu5rb]

Con u help me... When I typed "set root=(mypartition)" is shows command failed.. steps before it had no issues....

[@majidsayed8]

❤❤❤❤❤Really appreciate your efforts and thank you so much, this method just saved me. Please keep up the good work.

[@SavvyNik]

Glad to hear things worked out

[@rahxephon76]

I've been struggling with this for three days now. Thank U so Much. I only have one problem, I have to do this every time I want to boot to LMDE6. Is there a way to fix this?

[@SavvyNik]

Sounds like the bootloader is broken. Make sure you reinstall whatever bootloader you're using.

[@TimothyMarkBrennanJr]

Thanks man! This got me out of a bad situation.

[@SavvyNik]

Glad I could help! Think about subbing for more Linux and Programming content :D

[@stefano-1111]

Thank you very much! Everything went very well, and in the end I did it

[@gauravgarwal4470]

'Sudo grub-install /dev/sdb' command not working, giving some error while executing.

[@vasilisfanidis5900]

I'm trying to load from my live-usb the Ubuntu. I've got GNU GRUB version 2.06. How I can do it? I'm find it difficult through this tutorial...

[@scarvin4]

After the insmod normal command it goes back to the first statement 'error failure reading sector...from hd0, any help?

[@luigiprovencher]

I just ran into a problem after typing 'insmod normal' got 'error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found' .

[@imtiazmahmood2234]

It was a great help! thanks for the video!

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome!

[@Henry-i2w]

I’ve only got efi/ for gpt1 and gpt2 just has unknown file system I’m just stuck….

[@webite9947]

YOU SAVED MY LINUX ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ THANKS DUDE 😎

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it helped!

[@AsthmaticonRC]

Sort of new to ubuntu. Noticed you have the tuff gaming mobo. I have come across a common interrupt error irq I think and I cant find away to fix it.

[@Pandor1on]

hey uh, do you have one for zorin os? i cant figure out how to load the kernel, or find it

[@abhigyanbhattacharya6022]

It's my advice always keep a pendrive with ventoy in it before messing with Linux partitions coz ventoy has an option call localboot which allows you to boot into different os right from there. So if any day your grub is messed up you will be able to boot without all these grub rescue hassle You are welcome ;)

[@Lapinettexo]

Omg you sir have quite literally just saved my semester 😭😭 i have been watching hundreds of videos to figure out how to work out this grub thing to no avail and i cannot believe it was this easy, I cant thank you enough, thank you thank you thank you ❤❤❤

[@rafid.h.dejrah]

This really saved my life thx a bundle ❤

[@rxramblingrose4857]

Please to video uploader help with this on steam deck Linux 🙏 this screen popped up after a reboot from update 3.4.2

[@SavvyNik]

Woah that’s a big deal. I don’t have a steam deck tho sadly

[@akashvelu6283]

You saved my life buddy love you so much

[@ketan.choudhari7277]

After "insmod normal" i get error "file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found" plz help to get out from this problem

[@heinzhenry2047]

I get the same error, I can't get it fixed.... Did you find a way to fix that? I know it's 2 years ago but I'm dying right now trying to fix that shit

[@samudrasehgal6952]

Sir, while i am typing ls ( hd0 , gpt1)/ i am getting error of " no server is specified . " what should i do ... i am feeling so helpless please help me 🙏

[@CarlSeeger]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! You’re a genius Sir!!🙏

[@amanjotsingh001]

It does not show me my linux and windows root partitions, only other partitions are visible

[@keshavk2950]

Thanks a lot man, It really saved my day!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad to hear that!

[@macblink]

nothing happened when I entered "normal" ☹ 6:05 it just went back to the start