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    Exclamation Dual booted kali with windows, deleted kali partition now broken grub exists...

    Complete Problem:

    I have HDD and SSD, Windows is installed on SSD and I dual booted it with Kali... Later I deleted Kali Partition and merged the available space back. Boot menu shows Kali and windows. Ofcourse the Kali boot doesn't work grub>rescue starts... Now the real problem. I installed Zorin OS on 2nd Drive HDD in a separate partition according to instructions and it's not shown in boot menu. I tryed to manually install grub in efi partion on hdd but canonical path not found error occured. I think i need to repair my boot and remove old grub. Here is my report from Boot repair. I'm using Live version of ZorinOS right now. Is my data safe if i run bootrepair? Really concerned!!

    For each I'm also throwing it here:

    Code:
    boot-repair-4ppa2081                                              [20241028_1451]
    
    ============================== Boot Info Summary ===============================
    
     => Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
     => Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
    
    sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
    
        File system:       vfat
        Boot sector type:  FAT32
        Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
        Operating System:  
        Boot files:        
    
    sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
    
        File system:       
        Boot sector type:  -
        Boot sector info: 
    
    sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
    
        File system:       ntfs
        Boot sector type:  NTFS
        Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
        Operating System:  
        Boot files:        
    
    sda4: __________________________________________________________________________
    
        File system:       ext4
        Boot sector type:  -
        Boot sector info: 
        Operating System:  Zorin OS 17.2
        Boot files:        /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub
    
    sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
    
        File system:       
        Boot sector type:  -
        Boot sector info: 
    
    sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________
    
        File system:       ntfs
        Boot sector type:  NTFS
        Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
        Operating System:  Windows 10 or 11
        Boot files:        /Windows/System32/winload.exe
    
    sdb3: __________________________________________________________________________
    
        File system:       ntfs
        Boot sector type:  NTFS
        Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
        Operating System:  
        Boot files:        
    
    sdc: ___________________________________________________________________________
    
        File system:       iso9660
        Boot sector type:  Unknown
        Boot sector info: 
        Mounting failed:   mount: /mnt/BootInfo/FD/sdc: /dev/sdc already mounted or mount point busy.
    
    
    ================================ 2 OS detected =================================
    
    OS#1 (linux):   Zorin OS 17.2 (17) on sda4
    OS#2 (windows):   Windows 10 or 11 on sdb2
    
    ================================ Host/Hardware =================================
    
    CPU architecture: 64-bit
    Video: HD Graphics 620 GM107 [GeForce 940MX] from Intel Corporation NVIDIA Corporation
    Live-session OS is Zorin 64-bit (Zorin OS 17.2, jammy, x86_64)
    
    ===================================== UEFI =====================================
    
    BIOS/UEFI firmware: V1.47(1.47) from Insyde Corp.
    The firmware is EFI-compatible, and is set in EFI-mode for this live-session.
    SecureBoot enabled according to mokutil - Please report this message to boot.repair@gmail.com.
    BootCurrent: 0003
    Timeout: 0 seconds
    BootOrder: 0002,0003,0000,2001,2002,2003
    Boot0000* BlackLinux    PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(0,0,0)/HD(1,GPT,057c726f-e05f-4b75-9d96-93426fc0be39,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\kali\grubx64.efi)A01 ..
    Boot0001* Unknown Device:     HD(1,GPT,057c726f-e05f-4b75-9d96-93426fc0be39,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)RC
    Boot0002* Windows Boot Manager    HD(1,GPT,057c726f-e05f-4b75-9d96-93426fc0be39,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}...}................
    Boot0003* Linux    HD(1,MBR,0x339ad900,0x23c,0x2780)/File(\EFI\Boot\grubx64.efi)RC
    Boot2001* EFI USB Device    RC
    Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM    RC
    Boot2003* EFI Network    RC
    
    
    ============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
    
    Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________
    
    sda    : is-GPT,    no-BIOSboot,    has---ESP,     not-usb,    not-mmc, has-os,    no-wind,    2048 sectors * 512 bytes
    sdb    : is-GPT,    no-BIOSboot,    has-noESP,     not-usb,    not-mmc, has-os,    has-win,    2048 sectors * 512 bytes
    
    Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________
    
    sda1    : no-os,    64, nopakmgr,    no-docgrub,    nogrub,    nogrubinstall,    no-grubenv,    noupdategrub,    not-far
    sda3    : no-os,    64, nopakmgr,    no-docgrub,    nogrub,    nogrubinstall,    no-grubenv,    noupdategrub,    end-after-100GB
    sda4    : is-os,    64, apt-get,    signed grub-pc grub-efi ,    grub2,    grub-install,    grubenv-ok,    update-grub,    end-after-100GB
    sdb2    : is-os,    64, nopakmgr,    no-docgrub,    nogrub,    nogrubinstall,    no-grubenv,    noupdategrub,    end-after-100GB
    sdb3    : no-os,    64, nopakmgr,    no-docgrub,    nogrub,    nogrubinstall,    no-grubenv,    noupdategrub,    end-after-100GB
    
    Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________
    
    sda1    : is---ESP,    part-has-no-fstab,    no-nt,    no-winload,    no-recov-nor-hid,    no-bmgr,    notwinboot, vfat
    sda3    : isnotESP,    part-has-no-fstab,    no-nt,    no-winload,    no-recov-nor-hid,    no-bmgr,    notwinboot, ntfs
    sda4    : isnotESP,    fstab-has-goodEFI,    no-nt,    no-winload,    no-recov-nor-hid,    no-bmgr,    notwinboot, ext4
    sdb2    : isnotESP,    part-has-no-fstab,    no-nt,    haswinload,    no-recov-nor-hid,    no-bmgr,    notwinboot, ntfs
    sdb3    : isnotESP,    part-has-no-fstab,    no-nt,    no-winload,    recovery-or-hidden,    no-bmgr,    notwinboot, ntfs
    
    Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________
    
    sda1    : not--sepboot,    no---boot,    part-has-no-fstab,    not-sep-usr,    no---usr,    part-has-no-fstab,    no--grub.d,    sda
    sda3    : not--sepboot,    no---boot,    part-has-no-fstab,    not-sep-usr,    no---usr,    part-has-no-fstab,    no--grub.d,    sda
    sda4    : not--sepboot,    with-boot,    fstab-without-boot,    not-sep-usr,    with--usr,    fstab-without-usr,    std-grub.d,    sda
    sdb2    : not--sepboot,    no---boot,    part-has-no-fstab,    not-sep-usr,    no---usr,    part-has-no-fstab,    no--grub.d,    sdb
    sdb3    : not--sepboot,    no---boot,    part-has-no-fstab,    not-sep-usr,    no---usr,    part-has-no-fstab,    no--grub.d,    sdb
    
    fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________
    
    Disk sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
    Disk identifier: A53CD5C6-3AD2-4D78-B127-5637C972C878
              Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
    sda1        2048     206847     204800   100M EFI System
    sda2      206848     239615      32768    16M Microsoft reserved
    sda3      239616 1422067711 1421828096   678G Microsoft basic data
    sda4  1422067712 1953523711  531456000 253.4G Linux filesystem
    Disk sdb: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors
    Disk identifier: 5E4A7EF6-39AE-45FB-B7E2-29AA4744C430
             Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
    sdb1       2048     34815     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
    sdb2      34816 467822591 467787776 223.1G Microsoft basic data
    sdb3  467824640 468858879   1034240   505M Windows recovery environment
    Disk sdc: 58.59 GiB, 62914560000 bytes, 122880000 sectors
    Disk identifier: 0x339ad900
         Boot   Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
    sdc1  *          0   6678143   6678144  3.2G  0 Empty
    sdc2           572     10683     10112  4.9M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
    sdc3       6680576 122879999 116199424 55.4G 83 Linux
    
    parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________
    
    sda:1000GB:scsi:512:4096:gpt:ATA ST1000LM035-1RK1:;
    1:1049kB:106MB:105MB:fat32:EFI system partition:boot, esp;
    2:106MB:123MB:16.8MB::Microsoft reserved partition:msftres;
    3:123MB:728GB:728GB:ntfs:Basic data partition:msftdata;
    4:728GB:1000GB:272GB:ext4::;
    sdb:240GB:scsi:512:512:gpt:ATA Lexar 240GB SSD:;
    1:1049kB:17.8MB:16.8MB::Microsoft reserved partition:msftres;
    2:17.8MB:240GB:240GB:ntfs:Basic data partition:msftdata;
    3:240GB:240GB:530MB:ntfs::hidden, diag;
    sdc:62.9GB:scsi:512:512:msdos:VendorCo ProductCode:;
    2:293kB:5470kB:5177kB:::esp;
    3:3420MB:62.9GB:59.5GB:ext4::;
    
    Free space >10MiB: ______________________________________________________________
    
    sdc: 5.22MiB:3262MiB:3257MiB
    
    blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________
    
    NAME   FSTYPE   UUID                                 PARTUUID                             LABEL                    PARTLABEL
    sda                                                                                                                
    ├─sda1 vfat     0A61-8EC4                            057c726f-e05f-4b75-9d96-93426fc0be39                          EFI system partition
    ├─sda2                                               2fdf6b3e-17e6-480b-960c-f8d1d066adce                          Microsoft reserved partition
    ├─sda3 ntfs     FA328A033289C55B                     a4107019-bb31-4924-8817-38350fdc5d86 BIG Drive                Basic data partition
    └─sda4 ext4     ab29300f-d475-4532-9acd-cb595898c720 ef6d2ef8-4a8f-4ac1-aeca-fca373646ddb                          
    sdb                                                                                                                
    ├─sdb1                                               c628b3ae-3d24-42b2-b3c5-6b46d78d4170                          Microsoft reserved partition
    ├─sdb2 ntfs     0C2A70192A6FFDD0                     4e794a6a-1ce8-4760-9e1c-145844042778                          Basic data partition
    └─sdb3 ntfs     B248CEE248CEA507                     64c54709-ccd0-469e-be3f-e747269788a5                          
    sdc    iso9660  2024-09-18-12-00-16-00                                                    Zorin OS 17.2 Core 64bit 
    ├─sdc1 iso9660  2024-09-18-12-00-16-00               339ad900-01                          Zorin OS 17.2 Core 64bit 
    ├─sdc2 vfat     0C83-C5F2                            339ad900-02                                                   
    └─sdc3 ext4     5d5ce05d-dde3-4fc5-a50f-e636e8ef7ac2 339ad900-03                          writable                 
    
    Mount points (filtered): _______________________________________________________
    
                                                                   Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda1                                                     225.3G   4% /mnt/boot/efi
    /dev/sda3                                                     285.5G  58% /media/zorin/BIG Drive
    /dev/sda4                                                     225.3G   4% /mnt
    /dev/sdb2                                                      55.6G  75% /media/zorin/0C2A70192A6FFDD0
    /dev/sdb3                                                      87.9M  83% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb3
    /dev/sdc1                                                          0 100% /cdrom
    efivarfs                                                        3.1K  92% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
    
    Mount options (filtered): ______________________________________________________
    
    /dev/sda1                                                     vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
    /dev/sda3                                                     ntfs3           rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=999,gid=999,windows_names,iocharset=utf8
    /dev/sda4                                                     ext4            rw,relatime
    /dev/sdb2                                                     ntfs3           rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=999,gid=999,windows_names,iocharset=utf8
    /dev/sdb3                                                     fuseblk         rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
    /dev/sdc1                                                     iso9660         ro,noatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,iocharset=utf8
    
    ====================== sda4/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
    
    Zorin   ab29300f-d475-4532-9acd-cb595898c720
    ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
    ### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
    
    ========================== sda4/etc/fstab (filtered) ===========================
    
    # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
    # / was on /dev/sda4 during installation
    UUID=ab29300f-d475-4532-9acd-cb595898c720 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
    # /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
    UUID=0A61-8EC4  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
    
    ======================= sda4/etc/default/grub (filtered) =======================
    
    GRUB_DEFAULT=0
    GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
    GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
    GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
    GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/zorin/theme.txt
    
    ==================== sda4: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================
    
               GiB - GB             File                                 Fragment(s)
     740.223651886 = 794.809094144  boot/grub/grub.cfg                             1
     681.899410248 = 732.183916544  boot/vmlinuz                                   2
     681.899410248 = 732.183916544  boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-40-generic                  2
     683.889862061 = 734.321147904  boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-47-generic                  1
     907.394935608 = 974.307893248  boot/initrd.img                                1
     907.394935608 = 974.307893248  boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-40-generic               1
     913.727104187 = 981.107007488  boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-47-generic               1
     907.394935608 = 974.307893248  boot/initrd.img.old                            1
    
    ===================== sda4: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ======================
    
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18673 May 10  2023 10_linux
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43021 May 10  2023 10_linux_zfs
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14387 May 10  2023 20_linux_xen
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13369 May 10  2023 30_os-prober
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1372 May 10  2023 30_uefi-firmware
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   700 May 17  2023 35_fwupd
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   214 May 10  2023 40_custom
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   215 May 10  2023 41_custom
    
    
    
    Suggested repair: ______________________________________________________________
    
    The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility would reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of
    sda4,
    using the following options:  sda1/boot/efi
    Additional repair would be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file
    
    Confirmation request before suggested repair: __________________________________
    
    LegacyWindows detected. You may want to retry after deactivating the [Separate /boot/efi partition:] option.
    Are you sure you want to continue anyway?
    
    Final advice in case of suggested repair: ______________________________________
    
    Please do not forget to make your UEFI firmware boot on the Zorin OS 17.2 (17) entry (sda1/efi/****/shim****.efi (**** will be updated in the final message) file) !
    
    *******.us ko ()

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    Re: Dual booted kali with windows, deleted kali partition now broken grub exists...

    I installed Zorin OS on 2nd Drive HDD in a separate partition according to instructions and it's not shown in boot menu.
    It would not be, would it? The Grub boot menu is on the SSD and controlled by Kali which had been wiped from the SSD drive. If Kali was still there you could boot into Kali and run

    Code:
    sudo update-grub
    And then watch the printout to see that Zorin would be listed as found by Grub. And then the Grub menu would offer to boot Zorin.

    I know nothing about Kali and Zorin but I assume that Zorin also uses Grub as the boot loader. I also assume that when you installed Zorin you instructed the Zorin installer to install Grub into the HHD. So, use the UEFI/BIOS to set the boot priority to the HHD and you should see another Grub menu that lists both Zorin and Windows.

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    Re: Dual booted kali with windows, deleted kali partition now broken grub exists...

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    Re: Dual booted kali with windows, deleted kali partition now broken grub exists...

    Thanks I think that would work let me change the priority and come back.
    Edit: No it didn't show anything new, changing priority also showed the same windows bootloader and kali like before.
    Last edited by danrees77; October 28th, 2024 at 07:42 PM.

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    Re: Dual booted kali with windows, deleted kali partition now broken grub exists...

    Kindly can you check the report and tell whether I should run boot repair default or not.

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    Re: Dual booted kali with windows, deleted kali partition now broken grub exists...

    I don't know what you did but the boot repair report shows both your hard drives (sda and sdb) which contain windows and Zorin are GPT drives. Windows requires an EFI installation on GPT drives. You have an EFI partition but there is nothing shown on it in boot repair. Boot the Zorin live then run sudo parted -l and find the EFI partition. Boot repair shows it as sda1 but if you boot Zorin from a USB, it may see itself as sda and your internal drive as sdb/sdc... You will be able to tell which drive it is as the size of the drive will show in the parted output , 1TB.

    If parted shows your EFI partition as sdb1, open a terminal and run: sudo mkdir /mnt/efi THEN RUN sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/efi. Make sure you get the correct drive and partition. If it mounts successfully, you should see both a Microsoft directory and a zorin (or maybe ubuntu) directory. Probably the won't be there as I would expect boot repair would have found those files. If you don't have those, neither will boot in EFI mode so you would need to reinstall Grub from Zorin or using boot repair. The suggested install from boot repair should do that. That won't help to boot windows if the Microsoft directory and its files are not there but it should boot Zorin. You will need a windows installation or recovery media to do that as that is the only way to get the proprietary microsoft boot files.

    The message at the end of boot repair shows Legacy windows detected. I don't know why it shows that. Maybe because windows boot code shows in the MBR of both devices. Did you do that when trying to repair the windows boot? A windows OS on a GPT drive would not be set up that way.

    In your initial post you refer to a boot menu. Is that the BIOS boot options as grub from Kali would not be expected to appear as the grub.cfg would have been on the / filesystem partition on which you had Kali installed. When you deleted Kali, did you also delete files/directories on the EFI partition. You could have just deleted the Kali directory.

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    Re: Dual booted kali with windows, deleted kali partition now broken grub exists...

    @yancek I had windows on my SSD and later installed Kali in it too. Then I only deleted the kali partition from windows disk management. What else I did I don't remember but now when I wanted ZorinOS I installed it on my HDD new partition following the instructions in documentation with only difference being that I already shrunk my partition to later use unallocated space for zorin which i did and installed zorin on hdd. But then after pc restart windows booted up normally... I looked in boot menu and found Kali's Grub and on running it only gave filesystem not found error and another one and grub>rescue showed. I changed disk priority but still the same. I live booted and tried to mount efi in sda1 because that's what chatgpt told me But it didn't work when i tried to install grub on efi it said can't get canonical address so i found about boot repair and posted dignosis here... Now what?

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    Re: Dual booted kali with windows, deleted kali partition now broken grub exists...

    If you had windows and Kali on the SSD and deleted the Kali / filesystem partition, you apparently also deleted the EFI partition with the EFI windows and Linux boot files since they don't show in boot repair.

    can't get canonical address
    That means you were trying to install Grub to the 'live' USB you were using so the instructions were wrong. You should use chroot to do that as explained at the link below. Look at the menu on the right of the page under Reinstalling Grub2.''

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing

    Now what?
    There are a number of questions I asked in my last post that you did not answer so how about starting there. If you don't have EFI boot code on any EFI partition for Zorin, there is no way for it to boot. You could run boot repair again so that we could check if anything has changed but if you do, do not try to make any repairs but select only the Create BootInfo Summary option and post the link you get from it here.
    Last edited by yancek; October 31st, 2024 at 12:19 AM.

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