Linux Lite does'not start after I've installed another distribution

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Linux Lite does'not start after I've installed another distribution - JohnD - 04-10-2017

It's a long story of last saturday and sunday. I try not to bore you -- and don't tell the whole story.

I've upgraded an older Linux version -- some years not used -- on the same hard drive with Linux Lite. After this I was not able to start Linux Lite. Something like "There is not such a file" comes after selecting Linux Lite in the grub menu.

Then I've installed a new Linux to test it and to get a clean system for recovering Linux Lite: Emmabüntus. During installation of Emmabüntus there was a weird problem. This was why I deleted the swap partition [tt]/dev/sda10[/tt]. Linux Lite was at [tt]/dev/sda11[/tt]. Now Linux Lite's partition is shown as [tt]/dev/sda10[/tt], But I can not open it.

I'm not able to mount the partition of Linux Lite from Emmabüntus Linux. But it was not touched by any access of mine.

Code:
john(at)pegasus ~

 $ sudo mount /dev/sda10 /media/linux_lite/

[sudo] password for john: 

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda10,

       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

       dmesg | tail or so.

 john(at)pegasus ~

 $  dmesg | grep sda10

[    2.878049]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 sda13 sda14 sda15 >

[20415.691094] EXT4-fs (sda10): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem

[118250.361243] FAT-fs (sda10): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

[124913.549921] FAT-fs (sda10): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

 john(at)pegasus ~

What might be the reason, that Gparted says, it does not know the file system of the partition on which Linux Lite is installed?

Code:
john(at)pegasus ~

 $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda10                                                                                     

tune2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)

tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda10. Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

 john(at)pegasus ~

What is the crap with those magical number? Who the heck has changed it?

Regards
JohnD

Re: Linux Lite does'not start after I've installed another distribution - firenice03 - 04-11-2017

Most likely grub was updated in the other Linux system during the update, in 3.0 LL grub still liked to be the in charge grub..

This worked for me https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/start-up-and-shutdown/linux-lite-grub-repair-messes-up-entries/msg30095/#msg30095

(03-13-2017, 05:02 AM)firenice03 link Wrote: Not sure if this would work in your case.. But I pooched my LL3.2 (updated from 3.0) grub when I dual booted LL3.4..

I pretty much copied grub from a Live USB mostly the following as suggested by gold_finger:

* Mount the LL2 root partition on the HDD to the live environment

Code:
sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt

* Install grub to the MBR of sda drive

Code:
sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdX

* Unmount the LL2 root partition

Code:
sudo umount /dev/sdXY

* Close terminal, shutdown live DVD and remove from tray. Then Reboot..

* Log in and update grub and reboot

Code:
sudo update-grub

Re: Linux Lite does'not start after I've installed another distribution - JohnD - 04-11-2017

[member=5414]firenice03[/member]:

One problem is that I was not able to mount the partition of LL:

Code:
john(at)pegasus ~

 $ sudo mount /dev/sda10 /media/linux_lite/

[sudo] password for john:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda10,

       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

       dmesg | tail or so.

[tt]/dev/sda10[/tt] ist the partition of Linux Lite.

Re: Linux Lite does'not start after I've installed another distribution - JohnD - 04-16-2017

I've now installed Linux Lite in a new partition. But have not got some files from the old partition, which I would like to have.

Code:
root[member=6591]pegasus[/member]:/home/john# blkid /dev/sda10                                           

/dev/sda10: PARTUUID="dcfb362e-0a"

root[member=6591]pegasus[/member]:/home/john# blkid -i /dev/sda10

DEVNAME=/dev/sda10

MINIMUM_IO_SIZE=4096

PHYSICAL_SECTOR_SIZE=4096

LOGICAL_SECTOR_SIZE=512

root[member=6591]pegasus[/member]:/home/john#

May be I should try photorec.