Grub Rescue Fails using Live USB





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I'm trying to recover my Grub with Live USB, I tried these commands to recover but get error in the last command.



ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot /mnt
root@ubuntu:/# grub-install /dev/sda
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding

Current thread 0x00007f209f0d4740 (most recent call first):
Aborted (core dumped)



Current thread 0x00007f209f0d4740 (most recent call first): Aborted
(core dumped)




My fdisk -l



Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 487423 485376 237M EFI System
/dev/sda2 487424 33314815 32827392 15.7G Linux swap
/dev/sda3 33314816 130971647 97656832 46.6G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4 130971648 468860927 337889280 161.1G Linux filesystem


My Linux is installed in sda3.










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    I'm trying to recover my Grub with Live USB, I tried these commands to recover but get error in the last command.



    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot /mnt
    root@ubuntu:/# grub-install /dev/sda
    Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
    LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding

    Current thread 0x00007f209f0d4740 (most recent call first):
    Aborted (core dumped)



    Current thread 0x00007f209f0d4740 (most recent call first): Aborted
    (core dumped)




    My fdisk -l



    Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
    /dev/sda1 2048 487423 485376 237M EFI System
    /dev/sda2 487424 33314815 32827392 15.7G Linux swap
    /dev/sda3 33314816 130971647 97656832 46.6G Linux filesystem
    /dev/sda4 130971648 468860927 337889280 161.1G Linux filesystem


    My Linux is installed in sda3.










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      I'm trying to recover my Grub with Live USB, I tried these commands to recover but get error in the last command.



      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot /mnt
      root@ubuntu:/# grub-install /dev/sda
      Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
      LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding

      Current thread 0x00007f209f0d4740 (most recent call first):
      Aborted (core dumped)



      Current thread 0x00007f209f0d4740 (most recent call first): Aborted
      (core dumped)




      My fdisk -l



      Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
      /dev/sda1 2048 487423 485376 237M EFI System
      /dev/sda2 487424 33314815 32827392 15.7G Linux swap
      /dev/sda3 33314816 130971647 97656832 46.6G Linux filesystem
      /dev/sda4 130971648 468860927 337889280 161.1G Linux filesystem


      My Linux is installed in sda3.










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      I'm trying to recover my Grub with Live USB, I tried these commands to recover but get error in the last command.



      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
      ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot /mnt
      root@ubuntu:/# grub-install /dev/sda
      Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
      LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding

      Current thread 0x00007f209f0d4740 (most recent call first):
      Aborted (core dumped)



      Current thread 0x00007f209f0d4740 (most recent call first): Aborted
      (core dumped)




      My fdisk -l



      Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
      /dev/sda1 2048 487423 485376 237M EFI System
      /dev/sda2 487424 33314815 32827392 15.7G Linux swap
      /dev/sda3 33314816 130971647 97656832 46.6G Linux filesystem
      /dev/sda4 130971648 468860927 337889280 161.1G Linux filesystem


      My Linux is installed in sda3.







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