Lost my UEFI partition
Posted: Jun 17th, '21, 16:13
I'm having a mare with my Mageia 8 installation. It all starts with the fact that the latest nvidia drivers stopped me from booting when I updated. So, I have been running Mageia 8 and doing no updates. Today I installed Mageia 8 on a second HDD, took out my M2 drive (as I'm paranoid about overwriting anything) to see whether the very latest nvidia drivers have solved anything. They don't and to make matters worse, when I put my M2 drive back in it now won't boot. If I use the installer to reinstall Mageia on that M2 drive it tells me there's no UEFI partition (even though you can see it in blue on the installer partitioner page) and it tells me I have to wipe the M2 drive if I want to install again. If I say I'm just upgrading from the Mageia 8 installer, I get to the end and it says:
an error occurred grub2-instll error install device isn't specified
So, my main question is, what can I do to get my bootloader back? Why would it just disappear? Why has my UEFI partion gone? I was every so careful with the M2 drive, and I can boot to a different drive and see all the data on the M2 drive, so I've clearly not destroyed it.
Many thanks.
an error occurred grub2-instll error install device isn't specified
So, my main question is, what can I do to get my bootloader back? Why would it just disappear? Why has my UEFI partion gone? I was every so careful with the M2 drive, and I can boot to a different drive and see all the data on the M2 drive, so I've clearly not destroyed it.
Many thanks.