If you are having trouble booting into your Ubuntu 22.04 system, there is a tool called Boot Repair that can remedy a broad range of frequent issues. Usually trouble with booting can be due to the GRUB boot menu or a corrupt file in the /boot directory. Whatever the case may be, Boot Repair is an excellent software to help us start troubleshooting.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to boot your computer into recovery mode and download the Boot Repair utility to perform troubleshooting. Follow along with us below for help with troubleshooting boot issues on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to load into a live Linux environment
- How to install Boot Repair
- How to use Boot Repair to troubleshooting booting issues
| Category | Requirements, Conventions or Software Version Used |
|---|---|
| System | Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish |
| Software | Boot Repair |
| Other | Privileged access to your Linux system as root or via the sudo command. |
| Conventions | # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command$ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user |
Ubuntu 22.04 not booting: Troubleshooting Guide
GRUB is the boot loader for Ubuntu. If your system is having trouble loading Ubuntu, it is usually indicative of an issue with GRUB trying to find the operating system. The instructions in this guide will help repair GRUB and point it to your operating system’s boot files.
- The first thing we need to do is boot into a live environment so that we can do some troubleshooting. For this, we recommend creating a bootable Ubuntu 22.04 USB disk. See our other tutorial for help with that. After you have that ready to go, boot into the live environment at system start.
Booting into the Ubuntu 22.04 live environment - Make sure you select the option to “Try Ubuntu” since we do not want to reinstall Ubuntu – that is a last resort!
Select option to Try Ubuntu to load into live environment - After your PC is loaded into the live environment, open a command line terminal and use the following
aptcommands to install the Boot Repair tool.$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install -y boot-repair
- Once the application is installed, launch it with the following command.
$ boot-repair
The application will begin scanning your hard drive for installations, and this could take a few minutes.
Boot Repair scanning for Linux installations - The first thing you should try now is the “Recommended repair” option. This will scan for and fix some of the most common boot issues.
Choosing the recommended repair option in boot repair Boot Repair will then perform this function. When it is done, you can reboot your system to see if that fixed the problem.
- In case you are still having trouble, you can select the “Create boot info summary” option, which will run diagnostics and give you a text summary to share with experts for more help. The other path you can take is under “Advanced options.”
Advanced options menu under boot repair In this menu, you have the option to reinstall GRUB or choose a new location to store the boot loader configuration, which can be helpful if you suspect that GRUB is preventing you from booting. You can also scan the file system for errors and a slew of other things.
Closing Thoughts
In this tutorial, you saw how to install Boot Repair in a live Ubuntu environment and use it to troubleshoot boot issues on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux. Boot issues can be very frustating, but this simple tool can check for all of the most frequent issues and get your PC back up and running in a few minutes. In a worst case scenario, reinstalling GRUB can remedy issues with your boot loader. If the steps here did not work, it is possible that the hard drive has errors on it – consider using
fsck to check the whole disk for errors.