timswait
October 16th, 2016, 10:50 AM
The hard drive in my parents computer (Xenial Kubuntu) recently started to break down. Unfortunately they carried on using it until it failed to boot, going into grub rescue mode. I have now fitted a new hard drive and used Clonezilla in rescue mode and copying sector by sector. It did the cloning (took about 10 hours) and when I booted the system to a live disc I could mount the new hard drive and see my parents files in it. However, it still doesn't boot to the new hard drive, going to the grub rescue screen. So I booted back to the live disc and installed and ran the 'Boot-repair' utility (using beginner mode). It ran and said it had completed successfully, but it still doesn't boot (just get the grub rescue screen still). The link to the Boot-Repair file is here: http://paste2.org/7OBG4s8L
At least I can access my parents documents, so should be able to save those, but I would really like to save the existing Kubuntu installation rather than doing a fresh install. It took ages to get it all set up just the way they like it, I really don't want to go through all that again!
So also to add, when I try to boot from the hard drive, the error I get is:
Error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found
Entering rescue mode.....
grub rescue>
At least I can access my parents documents, so should be able to save those, but I would really like to save the existing Kubuntu installation rather than doing a fresh install. It took ages to get it all set up just the way they like it, I really don't want to go through all that again!
So also to add, when I try to boot from the hard drive, the error I get is:
Error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found
Entering rescue mode.....
grub rescue>