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I'm Uber sorry for the click bait like title but there is no words to explain my situation right now. Here is the thing, 20 days ago I was trying update my Ubuntu 14.04 to 16 while doing it my laptop's power run out and process failed, when I replugged the charger I had classic "Ubuntu login loop problem" I've tried everything in here ; Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop Nothing helped, I gave up, wasn't using my laptop for 2 week, but today I wanted to fix it. However I realised while doing that loop problem Shell was giving "this module version was inactive for this kernel " Output almost after every bunch of code. Then I googled for "how to fix Ubuntu kernel", I ended up here ; http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/09/how-to-repair-broken-system-after.html?m=1 However, at the first place, I had options like, settings, Ubuntu and things things at boot screen. I went to recovery mod to apply that broken kernel codes. Now in the boot menu Ubuntu is gone for like ever. All I got in GNU GRUB *EFI/Ubuntu/MokManaher.efi *System setup *Remix os (nevermind this) When I go with the EFI thing, it says "Shim UEFI key management Continue boot Enroll key from disk Enroll hash from disk

Booting in 10 seconds " 10 seconds after I go back to boot (GNU GRUB) screen. What to do?

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Hmm, you seem to be in a delicated situation... Try to boot from a Live CD or pen drive. Once running a linux open a terminal and follow:

  1. Determine the partition number of your main partition (where your Ubuntu is installed). GParted can help you here (or some command-line based program as sudo fdisk -l). I'm going to assume in this answer that it's /dev/sda2, but make sure you use the correct partition number for your system!

  2. Mount your partition:

    sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

    Again: make sure that sda2 is correct! Bind mount some other necessary stuff:

    for i in /sys /proc /run /dev; do sudo mount --bind "$i" "/mnt$i"; done

  3. Chroot into your Ubuntu install:

    sudo chroot /mnt

    At this point, you're in your install, not the live CD, and running as root.

  4. Now try to finish the upgrade:

    do-release-upgrade

    dpkg --reconfigure -a

If these steps don't solve the problem, at least you can recover your personal stuff and reinstall the system. To do so, simply launch the file manager and open /mnt/home/username and all your folders will be there (here I'm assuming that when you first formatted Ubuntu, you used /dev/sda2 as your /home mount point too). At this point you can copy them into a pendrive, or open the browser and put them on the cloud.

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