I'm stuck. I was upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and during the install my network stopped working. I believe all packages were downloaded by that point. When I tried rebooting to get back my network (big mistake) I no longer had a working system. Booting into recovery mode I tried finishing the upgrade. For some reason the system doesn't see my /boot/efi partition even though it is mounted. My fstab file looks correct. Below is my screen when I try the upgrade command. Any suggestions what I can try to fix the system or do I need a fresh install. By the way this is dual boot beside Windows which is still working. https://photos.app.goo.gl/fozqMvjWhpi2kUeF9
Did you try Ubuntu's Boot Repair disk? This has helped me on numerous occasions, and not just with Ubuntu. On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 at 11:00, Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm stuck. I was upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and during the install my network stopped working. I believe all packages were downloaded by that point. When I tried rebooting to get back my network (big mistake) I no longer had a working system. Booting into recovery mode I tried finishing the upgrade. For some reason the system doesn't see my /boot/efi partition even though it is mounted. My fstab file looks correct. Below is my screen when I try the upgrade command. Any suggestions what I can try to fix the system or do I need a fresh install. By the way this is dual boot beside Windows which is still working. https://photos.app.goo.gl/fozqMvjWhpi2kUeF9 --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Thanks Don. I'm running boot-repair disk now. It has been running a couple hours . Not sure how long is too long before I give up on it. I wish it provided some realtime status. All it has given me is "Applying changes: This may take several minutes". I guess I'll leave it overnight and see what happens. Thanks again for the suggestion. Jim On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 1:23 p.m. Don Tai via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Did you try Ubuntu's Boot Repair disk? This has helped me on numerous occasions, and not just with Ubuntu.
On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 at 11:00, Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm stuck. I was upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and during the install my network stopped working. I believe all packages were downloaded by that point. When I tried rebooting to get back my network (big mistake) I no longer had a working system. Booting into recovery mode I tried finishing the upgrade. For some reason the system doesn't see my /boot/efi partition even though it is mounted. My fstab file looks correct. Below is my screen when I try the upgrade command. Any suggestions what I can try to fix the system or do I need a fresh install. By the way this is dual boot beside Windows which is still working. https://photos.app.goo.gl/fozqMvjWhpi2kUeF9 --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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| From: Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org> I have only generic advice: make sure you do a backup of your data before you go any further. | For some reason the system doesn't see my /boot/efi | partition even though it is mounted. My fstab file looks correct. Shots in the dark: If you already have it mounted, that might interfere with the upgrade mounting it. Is the GUUID (or whatever it is called) matching correctly? Consider doing an fsck on the ESP (i.e. the volume to normally mounted at /boot/efi). Remember that this is a FAT or VFAT filesystem.
Thanks for these suggestions I tried these and everything else I could think of. Unfortunately it seemed the system was too badly corrupted. I finally resorted to a fresh install of 22.04 however I was able to keep my previous /home and windows partition intact. Jim On 2022-10-10 11:56, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
I have only generic advice: make sure you do a backup of your data before you go any further.
| For some reason the system doesn't see my /boot/efi | partition even though it is mounted. My fstab file looks correct.
Shots in the dark:
If you already have it mounted, that might interfere with the upgrade mounting it.
Is the GUUID (or whatever it is called) matching correctly?
Consider doing an fsck on the ESP (i.e. the volume to normally mounted at /boot/efi). Remember that this is a FAT or VFAT filesystem.
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that's pretty scary, but good that you could keep your /home and win partitions. On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 12:35, Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Thanks for these suggestions I tried these and everything else I could think of. Unfortunately it seemed the system was too badly corrupted. I finally resorted to a fresh install of 22.04 however I was able to keep my previous /home and windows partition intact.
Jim
On 2022-10-10 11:56, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
I have only generic advice: make sure you do a backup of your data before you go any further.
| For some reason the system doesn't see my /boot/efi | partition even though it is mounted. My fstab file looks correct.
Shots in the dark:
If you already have it mounted, that might interfere with the upgrade mounting it.
Is the GUUID (or whatever it is called) matching correctly?
Consider doing an fsck on the ESP (i.e. the volume to normally mounted at /boot/efi). Remember that this is a FAT or VFAT filesystem.
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