mint 20 efi boot partition quit booting

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 01:48, <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
>
>  I used fsck on the boot partition and was told the dirty bit was set,
> no surprise, so I cleared it.

Did you fsck it? If not, why not? Repair it, make sure it's clean.

> This did not help  with booting without
> the stick, the unit just sits there, the hard drive lamp blinks quite
> a lot and as far as I can see nothing happens.
>
> Is there a boot log I can read? a diagnostic or a fix?

Boot the kernel from a USB key and use the kernel parameters to point
it at the root partition on the hard disk. (Google for how -- it's
quite easy.)

Then, if it boots OK, you can connect to the internet, run a full
upgrade, and shut down cleanly.

I would do the update from the shell, as the Mint GUI tool has a habit
of being over-cautious and only installing critical security patches,
nothing else. (Again, Google for how.)

To prevent future power management issues, the first thing I'd suggest
is to check that the firmware is current, and if not, update it.
(Google for how. I can't recommend here because I do not know the
exact model number.)


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