
This information is important in later stages. If you see something like EFI, it’s an indication that your system has EFI. Look closely in its output because it could be a huge output. To do that, open the terminal and use the following command to list your partitions: sudo fdisk -l Step 2: You need to find out iif your system uses EFI or BIOS.

You may have to change the partition names as per your system. The process is simple if you follow the steps carefully (not blindly). Fixing “minimal BASH like line editing is supported” Grub error Once you make sure that you have the prerequisites, let’s see how to fix the black screen of death for Linux (if I can call it that )). A working internet connection in the live session.A live USB or disk of (preferably) the same Linux distribution.To fix this issue, you would need the followings: You can read this tutorial to fix similar and more frequent issue, error: no such partition grub rescue in Linux Prerequisites

In this post we shall see how to fix this “minimal BASH like line editing is supported” Grub error in Ubuntu based Linux systems. It is a common Grub error that could occur with any Linux OS be it Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint etc. Type command ls to see available devices.Indeed this is not an error specific to Elementary OS. You should see the grub> prompt.įirst, check if GRUB detects your USB drive. When the GRUB screen appear, press C or ESC to go to the GRUB console. If you have your bootable USB drive, insert it into the computer. If not, you can use a tool called Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive. I assume that you already have a bootable USB drive with your favorite Linux distro. I had an opportunity to learn how to boot from USB using GRUB. Moreover, ever since I installed GRUB, the shortcut to summon booting device selection stopped working. I prepared a USB stick with the new system, but I couldn’t boot from it – BIOS was restoring the booting order on every reboot. I use it from time to time, but one day the filesystem crashed, and even fsck couldn’t repair it. One of my old computers runs Linux with GRUB as a bootloader. But what if both options failed for some reason?

If not, there is an option in BIOS/UEFI to change that. Almost every modern computer has a dedicated menu to choose from which device the system should boot.
