[Solved] - Tower's 1st [no, 3rd] Hard-Reset since clean-reinstall.

[kdemeoz]

I've now carefully re-read your links, + done more of my own research. Conceptually chroot still scares me a bit, but it seems a little less incomprehensible now.

This Wikipedia extract was encouraging:

Recovery
Should a system be rendered unbootable, a chroot can be used to move back into the damaged environment after bootstrapping from an alternate root file system (such as from installation media, or a Live CD).

Possible Procedure for me ??? TBC:
<<< for my Tower, boot is /sda1, & root is /sda5; per sudo fdisk -l >>>

Code:

cd /
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt # Or should it be "extended" not "ext4"?
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda5 /mnt
sudo mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc
sudo mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys
sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev

Move into the mounted filesystem:

Code:

sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Do my "dirty work":
"At this point, you can perform whatever troubleshooting you need to do:
 -- resintall GRUB to your disk's MBR
 -- reset a forgotten password
 -- perform a kernel upgrade (or downgrade)
 -- rebuild your initramdisk
 -- fix your /etc/fstab
 -- reinstall packages using your package manager
 -- whatever"
--> So, WHAT EXACTLY should i do here; maybe do the installation of the xserver-xorg-video-intel package, again? Other stuff?

Exit the chroot:

Code:

exit

Unmount all the partitions i mounted:

Code:

sudo umount /mnt/boot
sudo umount /mnt/{proc,sys,dev}

Unmount my SSD:

Code:

sudo umount /mnt

Finally:

Code:

reboot