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gunjah292

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From: Hamburg

Registered: 2011-05-05

Posts: 186

[SOLVED] Grub-customizer doesn't start and can't edit grub menu

It is not really a problem, but I want to get rid of it. I did some customizing of the menu with grub-customizer some time ago. I now uninstalled all of the additional kernels and want a standard grub. Unfortunately I can't edit grub via grub customizer anymore, because it doesn't start. I get the following error.

https://i.ibb.co/98C65M6/Auswahl-046.png

I found the DEVICEMAP_FILE but coudln't find the MKDEVICEMAP_CMD, so I tried to update grub manually. I deleted all the unused config files from /etc/grub.d and hit grub-mkconfig, but the menu entries don't change. It even shows menu entries from kernels and operating systems that don't exist on the harddrive anymore.

I am really at my wit's end here.

Mod note: Replaced oversized images -- V1del

Last edited by V1del (2018-11-30 16:33:01)

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eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: [SOLVED] Grub-customizer doesn't start and can't edit grub menu

Yeah, that's useless without English. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

Also useless without a clarification of what you mean by "and hit grub-mkconfig". Do you mean you took a hammer to the sector of the hard drive on which the file named grub-mkconfig is stored? Do you mean you ran a command that included, but was not exclusive to, "grub-mkconfig", but which you have failed to elaborate upon? If so, did you *also* neglect to provide the output?

Last edited by eschwartz (2018-11-30 16:16:59)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,402

Re: [SOLVED] Grub-customizer doesn't start and can't edit grub menu

Please post only thumbnails or links to images. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

These kinds of issues usually happen if your GRUB isn't the one being controlled by Arch, reinstall GRUB from within Arch and make sure that your paths aren't mixed up, is /boot a separate partition? FWIW it looks like you have an EFI partition at /dev/sda2 but are trying to fumble with a (BIOS?) installed GRUB on /dev/sda5 ? Which is it that you are booting from your UEFI what's your output for

lsblk -f
sudo efibootmgr -v
tree /boot #Requires the tree package

Last edited by V1del (2018-11-30 16:20:50)

gunjah292

Member

From: Hamburg

Registered: 2011-05-05

Posts: 186

Re: [SOLVED] Grub-customizer doesn't start and can't edit grub menu

Sorry for the German picture. I now solved the issue by deleting the whole content of /etc/grub.d/ and reinstalling grub.

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