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Yesterday my PC suddenly freezed and when I restarted I was faced with the Grub Rescue. So I started trying ways provided in this site to make it to the boot menu.

First I tried to find where my Ubuntu was installed. But then when i tried the ls (hd0,2)/boot command for every listed partition, every time I got this error: unknown filesystem. It was unclear.

So I took someone's advise and tried this. Hence since I was being shown the directories in ls (hd0,3)/, I assumed boot should be in (hd0,msdos3).

And then I went on with some steps to get to boot menu when suddenly this happened.

Since then I have not been able to find any solution to fix this 'normal.mod' problem. I think this is the last step to fixing the problem but right now I am at a dead end.

Please help.

P.S- If it helps I had only Linux Mint installed. No dualboot system.

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From yesterday's question:

According to the screenshot shared by you:

Image 1

You have three partitions on your hard-drive, presumably:

/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3

Now, according to the outputs of the ls command it is clear that:

  1. /dev/sda1 is not an EXT file system.
  2. /dev/sda2 is also not an EXT file system.
  3. Though, /dev/sda3 is an EXT file system for some reasons there is /boot folder in it.

Now, according to today's output:

Image 2

/dev/sda3 is your home partition. It means that during your last installation of Ubuntu you created a separate partition for home and as such all your data is safe. Also, this means that for some unknown reasons your Ubuntu partition got corrupted while still in use.

SOLUTION:

There is only one solution to this - a new installation of Ubuntu.

But, do not worry as most of your data is still safe as your home partition is still intact. The only things you will loose are the installed softwares and your username, password and other minor things which you can install easily after a fresh install.

P.S.: When you will do a fresh install, the part when you are asked about partition, choose 'Something else' and then choose /dev/sda3 as your home partition and everything should be alright.

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