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We have bough a server and we are using for our website, today I received an email from the provider that your server has started into Rescue mode and they sent to me a temporary password to login through PuTTY.

Any one can teach me what to do? When I log in with SSH, I get root@rescue but I don't know how to set Grub...

I have TRIED some suggestion from google but I couldn't find the solution.

I see some suggestion how to repair it using boot CD, but I don't have the server here and I can't use that method, any other method please?

Here is configuration from /etc/default/grub/:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Thanks!

pa4080
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  • Could you please [edit] your question to clarify which Ubuntu release the server is and whether the system is running on virtual hardware (e. g. inside of a container or virtual machine) or "bare metal"? Thanks. – David Foerster Jan 18 '17 at 12:29

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Some VPS service support guideline for this kind of problem with WebGUI. Here, you can see sample.

If there is no way to do like above. Another way is to modify grub menu. If your familier with vi editor. If not try with your desired editor.

sudo vi /etc/default/grub

Find the following line.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=

In my VPS, that line is like this. 

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty1 console=ttyS0"

Confirm your edit with cat /etc/default/grub.

After that update grub.

sudo update-grub

And then reboot your server.

sudo reboot

If still you are in rescue mode, edit your answer with your with /etc/default/grub detail to verify more by others.

San Lin Naing
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  • Hi, thanks for your comment , i followed your suggestion but when i type sudo update-grub i get one error /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `aufs'. – h0feer Jan 18 '17 at 11:13
  • type command `df -h` and please comment what is output. – San Lin Naing Jan 18 '17 at 11:27
  • Hi, i get result with long characters and this reply form don't allow me to paste all the text, tell me for which line u are interested to know? – h0feer Jan 18 '17 at 11:31
  • you can use to post with https://paste.ubuntu.com/ and can share link. – San Lin Naing Jan 18 '17 at 11:39
  • Hi, here is the link : https://paste.ubuntu.com/23821662/ – h0feer Jan 18 '17 at 11:41
  • Remounting may not help grub problem because of your are on a remote Virtual server. So lets try with other way. – San Lin Naing Jan 18 '17 at 12:02
  • [LInk](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-recover-from-file-system-corruption-using-fsck-and-a-recovery-iso) according to this guide, try with `fsck`. Type `fsck` in your terminal. – San Lin Naing Jan 18 '17 at 12:04
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/51992/discussion-between-h0feer-and-san-lin-naing). – h0feer Jan 18 '17 at 12:35
  • here is what i get : root@rescue:~# fsck fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 root@rescue:~# – h0feer Jan 18 '17 at 12:39