Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-11-07 Thread Jake D
I am still getting emails. Unsure if you have actioned this yet. I have had someone else tell me to use this Pagure website when I was trying to close my Ask Fedora site too, and as I said there: despite repeated attempts my login details do not work to log into that page, which appears to be an

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-11-07 Thread Jake D
Astounding that in the face of someone telling you "You are not helping", your conclusion is to decide you are helpful, pat yourself on the back for it, and declare they have an 'attitude problem'. The lack of anything resembling self-awareness is almost comical, and I'm starting to understand

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-11-06 Thread Jake D
> On Nov 6, 2022, at 20:16, Jake D wrote: > > (I doubt the OP will read this, but in case other new users do…) I dont really have a choice! For some reason every single reply is still being emailed directly to me > I’m part of the Fedora community and while I’ve largely s

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-11-06 Thread Jake D
If any new users come looking, my (and his) advice was/is: Don't use Fedora. I think the reasons for that are abundantly clear already. I'm not going to waste his time further. I dont really even want to waste my time further, but I can't seem to delete my hyperkitty account. That seems to b

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-11-06 Thread Jake D
Well, an update. When I left this discussion, it had taken what I would describe diplomatically as an ...unhelpful turn. People were either repeatedly insisting that I "just reinstall" despite my explanations why this was not practical; lecturing me about panic psychology and/or their opinions

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Jake D
> Well the good news is that if it is booting to a grub prompt, it is most > likely not a > problem with the EFI volume, because it is booting into grub. You just need > to regenerate > the contents of the /boot volume, which most importantly needs a kernel, an > initrd and > some grub configu

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Jake D
No, it's not a troll. Thank-you for your otherwise completely irrelevant , unsolicited and entirely unhelpful opinion piece. I'm sorry for not realising Windows upsets you so much and is therefore inferior, and for daring to ask if Linux has similar recovery functionality, after being told th

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Jake D
> That's funny. Randomly delete some system files and the boot partition > and ask a new user to fix it. Good luck. Almost always, even for not > new users, any serious windows problem is solved by reinstalling the system. This is demonstrably not true, but also not relevant and I have no i

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Jake D
> My opinion: This is probably easier in a live discussion on IRC or Matrix. > There's > just too much back and forth required. Are these different forums? I just googled 'Fedora matrix 'and I'm getting a lot of very varied hits > But the absolute easiest thing to do is mount the encrypted bt

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Jake D
> HyperKitty is a web front-end for what is really a mailing list. Most > people here access the list via a standard mailer rather than the web > interface, which (IMHO) gives better results, including proper quoting. I 'm not really sure what a "standard mailer" is or what you mean by 'mailing

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Jake D
> Do you have any initramfs files in /boot? Not at present, Like I said, it was wiped > Yes. You need to find out which kernel version(s) you have installed in > order to run the following command. I'm sorry, which command? dnf upgrade kernel? Is that also inside chrrot ? > First try "dnf u

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Jake D
> Stab in the dark - within the chroot jail maybe it knows about the > mounted *tree* but it doesn't know about the mounts themselves? In > other words, by doing the mounts outside of the chroot, you are > updating /etc/mnttab in the "Live USB" environment, but /etc/mnttab in > the chroot environ

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Jake D
> What does "ls -l /dev/mapper/fedora_crypt" show? Do I run this from...'within' the 'chroot' thing, or just in the live USB after i do 'luks open'? > That's one of the possible places for it to write the files. Did it > find the right place? If not, you'll have to specify the file yourself.

How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Jake D
Hello all. I need some help. Firstly: Please forgive the formatting - I'm new to this medium and not sure what the accepted conventions are, the HyperKitty interface is ...very basic. Also please forgive the length, I just don't know how to make it shorter without losing potentially relevant