https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post379485
Covers tips, comments, general guidance on:
Using live session browser to get info
Rescuing your data off a broken partition
PhotoRec and TestDisk (neat: making a personal directory for them)
Fixing a partition table (gdisk for GPT) and restoring lost partitions (TestDisk)
Partition editing
Editing Kubuntu system files
Fixing booting problems: Boot Repair, rEFInd, chroot-ing
Might be useful to new people. Or veterans. I just realized that in a live Kubuntu session you can make a live rEFInd CD or USB to get you rescued from an un-bootable mess. I never really thought about it, it's easy to do, and can fix an un-bootable UEFI system.
Not so with Boot Repair, not for me. You can easily install Boot Repair in a live session and run it to fix your problem. But I was unable in the live session to build a bootable Boot Repair USB flash drive; I tried using dd and using UNetbootin (which I gather has some issues filed against it): no go in both cases.
Doing this how-to came out of another Kubuntu issue I'll bring up next in a separate post ...
Covers tips, comments, general guidance on:
Using live session browser to get info
Rescuing your data off a broken partition
PhotoRec and TestDisk (neat: making a personal directory for them)
Fixing a partition table (gdisk for GPT) and restoring lost partitions (TestDisk)
Partition editing
Editing Kubuntu system files
Fixing booting problems: Boot Repair, rEFInd, chroot-ing
Might be useful to new people. Or veterans. I just realized that in a live Kubuntu session you can make a live rEFInd CD or USB to get you rescued from an un-bootable mess. I never really thought about it, it's easy to do, and can fix an un-bootable UEFI system.
Not so with Boot Repair, not for me. You can easily install Boot Repair in a live session and run it to fix your problem. But I was unable in the live session to build a bootable Boot Repair USB flash drive; I tried using dd and using UNetbootin (which I gather has some issues filed against it): no go in both cases.
Doing this how-to came out of another Kubuntu issue I'll bring up next in a separate post ...