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My overall goal is to dual boot Linux Mint and Windows 10. The motherboard is legacy bios only.

Firstly I installed Linux Mint then Windows 10 on a secondary partition.

Because I forgot to make a separate boot partition... I moved everything 1000MB to the right, and created a ext4 boot partition at the beginning of sda.

Running boot repair on a live Ubuntu USB with the options:

• Separate /boot partition: sda4 (the first partition on disk)


• GRUB Legacy (figured that was for legacy bios)


• Reinstall GRUB (default)


• Unhide boot menu: 10s (default)

Boot Repair hangs at Purge kernels then reinstall last kernel sda1 (ins). This may require several minuets...

I have let this running overnight, the process is still running. I have done a reboot and tried again, let the process run for 3 days. Nothing different.

Boot Info Summary: http://paste.ubuntu.com/17678629/

I have had gparted open at the same time, assuming that wouldn't have an affect.

I've had exactly the same issue today. Digging through boot-repair tool logs I've found this error:

gui-actions-purge.sh: line 441: ${APTTYP[$USRPART]} ${INSTALLTYP[$USRPART]} ${YESTYP[$USRPART]} linux${$KERNELTOREINST}-generic linux-headers-generic: bad substitution

The logs are stored in the varlogboot-savlogYYYY-MM-DD__HHhMMboot-repairXXboot-repair.log file.

The package linux${$KERNELTOREINST}-generic doesn't look like a valid package. It probably should be just linux-generic.

So I've modified usrshareboot-savgui-actions-purge.sh, replacing line 441:

local COMMAND="${APTTYP[$USRPART]} ${INSTALLTYP[$USRPART]} ${YESTYP[$USRPART]} linux${$KERNELTOREINST}-generic linux-headers-generic"

with:

local COMMAND="${APTTYP[$USRPART]} ${INSTALLTYP[$USRPART]} ${YESTYP[$USRPART]} linux-generic linux-headers-generic"

and restarted boot-repair from taskbar menu.

It worked OK and fixed my boot issues, restoring grub on my cloned disk.

Quick how-to

1. Boot Boot-Repair as usual, but close autostarted boot-repair tool


2. Open terminal from taskbar menu


3. Type sudo su - to get root shell


4. Type leafpad &
   


5. Text-editor will open. Open usrshareboot-savgui-actions-purge.sh file with it.


6. 
   

   Find

   
   
   

   local COMMAND="${APTTYP[$USRPART]} ${INSTALLTYP[$USRPART]} ${YESTYP[$USRPART]} linux${$KERNELTOREINST}-generic linux-headers-generic"
   
   

   
   


7. 
   

   Replace with:

   
   
   

   local COMMAND="${APTTYP[$USRPART]} ${INSTALLTYP[$USRPART]} ${YESTYP[$USRPART]} linux-generic linux-headers-generic"
   
   

   
   


8. Save file, close Leafpad
   


9. Leave root terminal open, you will need it later, as boot-repair will ask you to run some commands.


10. Run boot-repair from taskbar menu and follow it's instructions.

My general approach to these quagmires is image the disks involved, then just start fresh.

Not technically helpful I know, but my advice nonetheless.