• tomkatt@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Not true, it’s grub rescue, appears after grub if the OS can’t boot. I’ve encountered this countless times at work over the years in customer environments.

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      9 hours ago

      This is false and there’s a simple way to show it.

      Remove the grub.cfg file and the system will boot to the grub prompt (not grub rescue). You can manually boot past this by inputting the Linux and initramfs lines.

      Then test again but leave grub.cfg intact. Remove an important module like normal.mod and test booting - system will land at grub rescue instead of the normal grub prompt.

      Once you test it would be good if you edit your posts so that you aren’t sharing bad information with others

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        4 hours ago

        Well shit. You’re right, I’m mixing up grub rescue and emergency mode. Yeah, you would need a USB rescue disk to fix this most likely.

        My bad, I’ll update the original comment to avoid confusion.