Tiggerbasher
New Member
Hi, total newbie to Linux so please don't shout if I have posted this in the wrong place.
My son has an old iMac which he somehow managed to wipe the Mac software off and install a duel boot system of Ubuntu and CloudReady.
All worked good for a while until one day Grub wouldn’t allow a boot into Ubuntu, a few months later and now he can’t boot into Cloudready either – all you get is a loop of it boots, some Grub error briefly appears and then it boots again.
I tried to create a Grub recovery USB however the USB does not appear to be recognised at boot up (press Alt at boot and get a choice of the hard disk only)
I managed to find the original USB stick he used to install Cloudready, from this I can USB boot into a guest account and get access to the terminal window.
I have also noticed that the USB with the Grub recovery on can be seen within Cloudready file explorer which seems strange that it cannot be seen at boot.
Anyway, with a Terminal window I have managed to figure out how to get shell access to run sudo commands (not too sure what they are but any script I find online is prefixed with sudo).
Trouble is any other command such as ‘apt’, ‘apt-get’ etc are met with a ‘command not found’ error so where I find online resource telling me how to fix Grub using command line I can’t get any further.
So, basically I am looking at help on how to re-install ‘apt’ (and anything else anyone thinks I may be missing), how best to fix grub, and some basics on how to move around folders in Linux using command line (from the little I know windows has commands such as dir etc).
Hopefully from there I can work out how to make it all work again for my son.
Many thanks for taking time to read / any help you can offer in advance.
Once again apologies if in the wrong forum thread, I chose command line as it’s about the only access I can get at present.
My son has an old iMac which he somehow managed to wipe the Mac software off and install a duel boot system of Ubuntu and CloudReady.
All worked good for a while until one day Grub wouldn’t allow a boot into Ubuntu, a few months later and now he can’t boot into Cloudready either – all you get is a loop of it boots, some Grub error briefly appears and then it boots again.
I tried to create a Grub recovery USB however the USB does not appear to be recognised at boot up (press Alt at boot and get a choice of the hard disk only)
I managed to find the original USB stick he used to install Cloudready, from this I can USB boot into a guest account and get access to the terminal window.
I have also noticed that the USB with the Grub recovery on can be seen within Cloudready file explorer which seems strange that it cannot be seen at boot.
Anyway, with a Terminal window I have managed to figure out how to get shell access to run sudo commands (not too sure what they are but any script I find online is prefixed with sudo).
Trouble is any other command such as ‘apt’, ‘apt-get’ etc are met with a ‘command not found’ error so where I find online resource telling me how to fix Grub using command line I can’t get any further.
So, basically I am looking at help on how to re-install ‘apt’ (and anything else anyone thinks I may be missing), how best to fix grub, and some basics on how to move around folders in Linux using command line (from the little I know windows has commands such as dir etc).
Hopefully from there I can work out how to make it all work again for my son.
Many thanks for taking time to read / any help you can offer in advance.
Once again apologies if in the wrong forum thread, I chose command line as it’s about the only access I can get at present.