GRUB problem - way over my head

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Hello everyone. I am pretty new to Linux and have run into a problem far above my know-how and could really use some help.

I switched to Linux around a year ago and started with Mint as my first distribution. I quickly got bored with it and wanted to learn more about Linux, and the terminal in particular.

I tried Debian with GNOME briefly, but decided to give endeavourOS with KDE a shot. I absolutely loved it, and once i felt a bit more comfortable I installed it on my main machine.

Now, on my laptop that I’ve been using to play around is free.

I installed Debian bookworm and gave it a shot, thinking i would learn to use the terminal a bit more on that machine and get a better understanding of Debian. I bought a book to try to help move me in the right direction, and the book reccomends Fedora.

So this afternoon, I used BalenaEtcher to write the most recent Fedora .iso to a USB drive to install it. I changed to boot sequence to what I thought would have been correct (I was clearly wrong).

Now, when I try to boot, even to BIOS to change the boot sequence I get the error

error: symbol ‘efi_wrap_1’ not found
grub rescue>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Welcome to :fedora:

What do you mean by this?

  • Were you trying to dual boot Fedora and your previous OS ?
  • Were you trying to install Fedora as the only OS on the machine?
  • What did you do with BelenaEtcher ? Anything custom?
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I was going to install Fedora as the only OS on the machine. The USB wasn’t named correctly. When I went to change the boot sequence I thought I had moved the USB to the top of the boot order, but I guess it wasn’t the USB drive that I moved.

Thank you for the welcome

Edit: No, nothing custom in BalenaEtcher. I just flashed the Fedora .iso to the USB drive

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Most systems have a bios boot menu (mine uses F11, others may be different) that allows you to select the device to boot from.

The fedora iso is hybrid meaning it can boot into either legacy or uefi mode. From the boot menu select the boot mode you wish to use and the usb device then boot. Simple as that and does not, at the start, require changing the boot order in the bios setup menu.

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to add to this, mine is F8

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You know, I kinda scoffed at your reply, because I usually use f8 to get into BIOS to change the boot sequence and I had tried that. I started at the beginning of the function keys, f10 brought me to a BIOS boot menu I’ve never seen before and it allowed me to select the USB.

Go figure…

Either way, thank you so much. I probably would have spent countless hours before I figured that out on my own. nI really appreciate it.

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