Stuck on GRUB command prompt after regular kernel update

Question

I am running Debian Wheezy. Update Manager suggest to install kernel update. After update, I reboot system but instead of listing all the kernels (bootloader), it gave me a GRUB command prompt:

grub>

What should I do? Thanks in advance for any pointers.

P.S. Maybe it will be useful:

grub> ls
(hd0) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,gpt1) (hd1)

My solution

Boot with Live CD. Open terminal and mount root partition (double check if you mount the right partition):

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

Also mount:

mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
mount  -t proc /proc /mnt/proc

(Check if you mount the right partition: Open nautilus and navigate to /mnt).

Execute:

chroot /mnt

And finally run:

update-grub

Exit (exit) from the terminal and reboot.

Solution

You don't need a live CD to solve this.

Type:

grub> ls

Here you should see a list of devices/partitions. Now we must find the partition that contains "/boot"

grub> ls (hd0,gpt1)/

The slash at the end is necessary. You may see "msdos" instead of "gpt". If this is the right partition we should see:

boot etc root bin ...

Type:

grub> set root=(hd0,gpt1)

grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz...(Press tab and choose the last working version) root=/dev/sda1

grub> initrd /boot/init...(press tab and select the same version as above)

grub> boot

This is just an example, you should modify it accordingly.

Comments

[Baroudi Safwen]

Glad it helped.

[Benyamin Limanto]

How to make it boot not in blind mode?