Hi Manoj,

Thank you for your response. I have had a look at those links, and they are quite a bit "over my head", so I wonder if I should use the rescue disk to facilitate shifting my ~/working directory to my RAID disks. (Nothing else is of any consequence) and then use a Ubuntu 18.10 DVD to upgrade the distribution and hopefully create a new GRUB on (in old terms) /dev/sda3

Thoughts?

Thanks

Andrew Greig

On 15/1/20 9:57 am, Manoj C Menon wrote:
Hi Andrew,

From the logs it looks like your sda3 partition (btrfs) is corrupt. 

Perhaps you could boot from a rescue CD/flash drive and try some of the suggestions on these pages?

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7018133
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=248361  
 

-Manoj.C

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:17 AM Andrew Greig via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Hi All,

I have discovered a Ubuntu Boot-Repair -Disc which avoids syntax issues,
I was unable to come up with a satisfactory syntax for the commands
needed to solve this problem. Suitably chastened I have located a laptop
which has Thunderbird so now I can keep the thread on the list. My
attempts to communicate from a tablet produced a pile of crap.

I downloaded and burned a Disk-Repair-Disk for Ubuntu

I have run the recommended steps to repair GRUB 2.8, but nothing has
been achieved.

I did request the log be sent to a paste bin just in case, and as it is
a few pages of text here is the link.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/pNsZCYF5QZ/

The last line acknowledges the failure to achieve a result.

This machine is critical to my work, and I had considerable assistance
earlier in 2019 to achieve a RAID system on this machine, for which I am
truly grateful.

I would appreciate any assistance with this problem.

Andrew Greig

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