[TriLUG] Is all hope lost (Ubuntu 18.04)

[Matthew Glassman via TriLUG]

Tried items suggested by Roger and then found this which worked beautifully off a live disk.

Grub rescue by boot-repair
Another way to rescue the grub on Ubuntu and almost of Linux distributions is using boot-repair tool. It's a graphical utility that can repair the Grub2 bootloader by some clicks.
You need to prepare a Live USB/DVD installer and boot into the live Linux environment. Then, let's connect your live OS to the Internet, install boot-repair by running the following commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
The boot-repair tool will be launched and you can select the 'Recommend repair' button and follow some next steps to repair your bootloader.
On Nov 29, 2020, 11:04 AM -0500, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at trilug.org>, wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2020, Matthew Glassman via TriLUG wrote:
>
> > Was able to recover thank you!
>
> how about you tell us the story?
>
> Joe
>
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