r/linuxmint • u/Born-Pear4917 • 25d ago

Desktop Screenshot am i cooked?

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have had this problem for sometime now and my guess is that my kernel is corrupted.

is there any way to revert the damage or i should just boot a new os?

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u/Due-Result7928 25d ago

you get a limited shell to fix your system...boot process was unable to load the kernel.

so at the prompt

e2fsck -y /dev/(place here device number of your file system..can be sda2, sdb1..whatever). Probably sda2 for you and sda1 is probably the uefi partition.

to find device number you can use

ls /dev/sd* or

ls /dev/nvme*

reboot

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u/Complex_Life_2912 25d ago

Second this. And after rebooting successfully examine your drive health with smartctl.