Booted into black screen after several days offline.
Initiated boot repair via USB boot
boot-repair-4ppa2075 [20251229_0816]
============================= Boot Repair Summary ==============================
modprobe: FATAL: Module efivars not found in directory /lib/modules/6.14.0-29-generic
Recommended repair: ____________________________________________________________
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility will reinstall the grub-efi of
nvme0n1p2,
using the following options: nvme0n1p1/boot/efi
Additional repair will be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file
Mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 on /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi
Unhide GRUB boot menu in nvme0n1p2/etc/default/grub
=================== Reinstall the grub-efi of /dev/nvme0n1p2 ===================
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 grub-install --version
grub-install (GRUB) 2.06-2ubuntu7.2
modprobe: FATAL: Module efivars not found in directory /lib/modules/6.14.0-29-generic
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 modprobe efivars
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 efibootmgr -v before grub install
EFI variables are not supported on this system.
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 uname -r
6.14.0-29-generic
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: warning: EFI variables cannot be set on this system.
grub-install: warning: You will have to complete the GRUB setup manually.
Installation finished. No error reported.
df /dev/nvme0n1p1
mv /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bkpbootx64.efi
cp /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi/efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: warning: EFI variables cannot be set on this system.
grub-install: warning: You will have to complete the GRUB setup manually.
Installation finished. No error reported.
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 efibootmgr -v after grub install
EFI variables are not supported on this system.
Warning: NVram is locked (Linuxmint not found in efibootmgr).
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 update-grub
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/50_linuxmint.cfg'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-164-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-164-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-130-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-130-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-91-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-91-generic
The ZFS modules are not loaded.
Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.
Some pools couldn't be imported and will be ignored:
The ZFS modules are not loaded.
Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.
The ZFS modules are not loaded.
Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.
The ZFS modules are not loaded.
Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
Unhide GRUB boot menu in nvme0n1p2/boot/grub/grub.cfg
Boot successfully repaired.
Locked-NVram detected. Please do not forget to make your UEFI firmware boot on the Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia (21.3) entry (nvme0n1p1/efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi file) !
============================ Boot Info After Repair ============================
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/nvme0n1.
nvme0n1p1: _____________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /efi/BOOT/bkpbootx64.efi /efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi
/efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg
nvme0n1p2: _____________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Linux Mint 21.3
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub
sda: ___________________________________________________________________________
File system: iso9660
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: mount: /mnt/BootInfo/FD/sda: /dev/sda already mounted or mount point busy.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
================================ 1 OS detected =================================
OS#1: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia (21.3) on nvme0n1p2
================================ Host/Hardware =================================
CPU architecture: 64-bit
Video: Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Live-session OS is Linuxmint 64-bit (Linux Mint 22.2, zara, x86_64)
===================================== UEFI =====================================
BIOS/UEFI firmware: 5.19(5.19) from American Megatrends International, LLC.
The firmware is EFI-compatible, and is set in EFI-mode for this live-session.
SecureBoot disabled (confirmed by mokutil).
BootCurrent: 0003
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0002,0003,0004,0000
Boot0000 Windows Boot Manager VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)57494e444f5753000100000088000000780000004200430044004f0042004a004500430054003d007b00390064006500610038003600320063002d0035006300640064002d0034006500370030002d0061006300630031002d006600330032006200330034003400640034003700390035007d00000061000100000010000000040000007fff0400
dp: 01 04 14 00 e7 75 e2 99 a0 75 37 4b a2 e6 c5 38 5e 6c 00 cb / 7f ff 04 00
data: 57 49 4e 44 4f 57 53 00 01 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 78 00 00 00 42 00 43 00 44 00 4f 00 42 00 4a 00 45 00 43 00 54 00 3d 00 7b 00 39 00 64 00 65 00 61 00 38 00 36 00 32 00 63 00 2d 00 35 00 63 00 64 00 64 00 2d 00 34 00 65 00 37 00 30 00 2d 00 61 00 63 00 63 00 31 00 2d 00 66 00 33 00 32 00 62 00 33 00 34 00 34 00 64 00 34 00 37 00 39 00 35 00 7d 00 00 00 61 00 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00
Boot0002* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,de407c15-1ad9-4a73-baa3-590ed9f02c98,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\UBUNTU\SHIMX64.EFI)
dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 15 7c 40 de d9 1a 73 4a ba a3 59 0e d9 f0 2c 98 02 02 / 04 04 34 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 55 00 42 00 55 00 4e 00 54 00 55 00 5c 00 53 00 48 00 49 00 4d 00 58 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
Boot0003* UEFI: SanDisk PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x3)/USB(1,0)/USB(2,0)/CDROM(1,0x2104,0xa000)0000424f
dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 01 08 / 01 01 06 00 03 00 / 03 05 06 00 01 00 / 03 05 06 00 02 00 / 04 02 18 00 01 00 00 00 04 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
data: 00 00 42 4f
Boot0004* UEFI: SanDisk, Partition 2 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x3)/USB(1,0)/USB(2,0)/HD(2,MBR,0xd94bd83b,0x2104,0x2800)0000424f
dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 01 08 / 01 01 06 00 03 00 / 03 05 06 00 01 00 / 03 05 06 00 02 00 / 04 01 2a 00 02 00 00 00 04 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 3b d8 4b d9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 / 7f ff 04 00
data: 00 00 42 4f
07e25dcaf57c776875f78fa36827c58e nvme0n1p1/BOOT/bkpbootx64.efi
07e25dcaf57c776875f78fa36827c58e nvme0n1p1/BOOT/bootx64.efi
1d43d986c265d8c455d020e4a1f28c52 nvme0n1p1/BOOT/fbx64.efi
1d260ff1255f189ab621209796ee2fed nvme0n1p1/BOOT/mmx64.efi
1535d97a530fe1aa6f0d87717547d309 nvme0n1p1/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
1d260ff1255f189ab621209796ee2fed nvme0n1p1/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
07e25dcaf57c776875f78fa36827c58e nvme0n1p1/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________
nvme0n1 : is-GPT, no-BIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, no-wind, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes
Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________
nvme0n1p1 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far
nvme0n1p2 : is-os, 64, apt-get, signed grub-pc grub-efi , grub2, grub-install, grubenv-ok, update-grub, end-after-100GB
Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________
nvme0n1p1 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
nvme0n1p2 : isnotESP, fstab-has-goodEFI, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________
nvme0n1p1 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, nvme0n1
nvme0n1p2 : not--sepboot, with-boot, fstab-without-boot, not-sep-usr, with--usr, fstab-without-usr, std-grub.d, nvme0n1
fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________
Disk nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk identifier: 58402A87-7E10-480F-879C-5FBD6EA6FB9B
Start End Sectors Size Type
nvme0n1p1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
nvme0n1p2 1050624 1000214527 999163904 476.4G Linux filesystem
Disk sda: 7.45 GiB, 8004304896 bytes, 15633408 sectors
Disk identifier: 0xd94bd83b
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sda1 * 64 5967263 5967200 2.8G 0 Empty
sda2 8452 18691 10240 5M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
sda3 5967872 15633407 9665536 4.6G 83 Linux
parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________
sda:8004MB:scsi:512:512:unknown:SanDisk Cruzer:;
nvme0n1:512GB:nvme:512:512:gpt:ESO512GYLCT-EP3-2L:;
1:1049kB:538MB:537MB:fat32:EFI System Partition:boot, esp;
2:538MB:512GB:512GB:ext4::;
blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________
NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL
sda iso9660 2025-08-28-08-52-38-00 Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon 64-bit
├─sda1 iso9660 2025-08-28-08-52-38-00 d94bd83b-01 Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon 64-bit
├─sda2 vfat 68B0-18D6 d94bd83b-02
└─sda3 ext4 24b03f62-5501-436b-b598-25455941ebb5 d94bd83b-03 writable
nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat 2DE8-74E5 de407c15-1ad9-4a73-baa3-590ed9f02c98 EFI System Partition
└─nvme0n1p2 ext4 c7f638fb-fb13-4df2-89ee-26e0c5bc5ec3 e6d472d5-6a61-4dcb-8d48-de3230be68d5
Mount points (filtered): _______________________________________________________
Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p1 504M 1% /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p1
/dev/nvme0n1p2 166.4G 59% /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2
/dev/sda1 0 100% /cdrom
efivarfs 108.9K 11% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
Mount options (filtered): ______________________________________________________
/dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
/dev/nvme0n1p2 ext4 rw,relatime
/dev/sda1 iso9660 ro,noatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,iocharset=utf8
=================== nvme0n1p1/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ===================
search.fs_uuid c7f638fb-fb13-4df2-89ee-26e0c5bc5ec3 root
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
=================== nvme0n1p2/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ====================
Ubuntu c7f638fb-fb13-4df2-89ee-26e0c5bc5ec3
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
======================== nvme0n1p2/etc/fstab (filtered) ========================
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installation
UUID=c7f638fb-fb13-4df2-89ee-26e0c5bc5ec3 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=2DE8-74E5 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
==================== nvme0n1p2/etc/default/grub (filtered) =====================
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
================= nvme0n1p2: Location of files loaded by Grub ==================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
?? = ?? boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
397.511886597 = 426.825138176 boot/vmlinuz 2
363.261882782 = 390.049476608 boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-130-generic 2
397.511886597 = 426.825138176 boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-164-generic 2
233.121166229 = 250.311946240 boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-91-generic 1
363.261882782 = 390.049476608 boot/vmlinuz.old 2
416.500972748 = 447.214514176 boot/initrd.img 9
218.475448608 = 234.586226688 boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-130-generic 9
416.500972748 = 447.214514176 boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-164-generic 9
252.750972748 = 271.389290496 boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-91-generic 8
218.475448608 = 234.586226688 boot/initrd.img.old 9
=================== nvme0n1p2: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ===================
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18683 Dec 18 2022 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43031 Dec 18 2022 10_linux_zfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14387 Dec 18 2022 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13369 Dec 18 2022 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1372 Dec 18 2022 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 700 May 17 2023 35_fwupd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 Dec 18 2022 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 215 Dec 18 2022 41_custom
