Mine just keeps repeating the line "grub>"
This usually means that the bootloader is faulty or cannot be found.
Are you able to boot into the LiveUSB for Zorin OS (Or any other distro of your choice) and access Gparted to inspect your EFI partition?
Yes, what should i do after this?
I restarted pc because the touchpad wasn't working, then this "Fix Minimal BASH like line editing is supported GRUB Error In Linux" keeps incoding "grub>".
Please boot into LiveUSB and use "Try Zorin"
From there you can launch Gparted to check your EFI partition
Follow the steps Here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
To perform Grub Repair.
I did the steps and " nvram locked " pops up and it requires me to disable secure boot.... I did the mokutil --disable--validation then so on. But it won't show me the mok management screen. It's still
stuck in the gnu grub repeating the "grub>" line.
Update: somehow I'm back to normal after several clicks.. but i know when i reboot this. The GNU GRUB will show up again.
Update: and yup. It just did..... Still stuck in grub doing the same thing 
.. is there anyway to remove this and just fresh install a new os? Can i delete this in gparted? Pls?
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Easily. As long as you have backups of your personal data or can access the drive while in LiveUSB to retrieve any personal files.
Are you dual Booting with Windows?
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No, Zorin was my only os.
In this case, you do not need Secure Boot, at all. Secure Boot is for Windows Only.
Disable it in BIOS and no longer worry about MOK utils
You can, if you want, just run LiveUSB and in the Zorin Installer, select "Wipe disk and install Zorin". That way, you do not need to worry about selecting partitions in Gparted.
You only need to do that if you have different partitions.
I think everything is good, just this gnu grup that keeps poping out then i start and reboot. Is their anyway to just remove it?
Are you ever able to reach the desktop?
Do you have any keys on your keyboard sticking?
Yes, if i press f12 several times in every boot.
This always pops out after boot ... I can reach the desktop (after several tries by spam clicking the f12.. t
No keys sticking, just this grub keeps poping out every boot. I need to try several times just to get to the desktop. 
Did you install Grub Customizer at any point?
Nope, i did not
What is the output of:
efibootmgr
What /dev is your Zorin OS Installed on?
Example: /dev/sda1
The Zorin Os is in dev/sdc
The EFI partition is in /dev/sdb1
this is the boot info boot repair gave me.
boot-repair-4ppa200-zorin1 [20230908_0157]
============================= Boot Repair Summary ==============================
Recommended repair: ____________________________________________________________
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility will reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of
sdb2,
using the following options: sdb1/boot/efi
Additional repair will be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file
Mount sdb1 on /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2/boot/efi
================= Reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of sdb2 ==================
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2 grub-install --version
grub-install (GRUB) 2.04-1ubuntu26.17+zorin1
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2 modprobe efivars
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2 efibootmgr -v before grub install
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* Linpus lite HD(1,MBR,0x61429f07,0x24c,0x2740)/File(EFIBootgrubx64.efi)RC
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,94729f9c-80aa-4d4c-8f8b-c6c26d0817a0,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIubuntushimx64.efi)
Boot0002* Network Boot-IPV4: 98-28-A6-3A-1F-9C PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(9828a63a1f9c,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.00.0.0.0,0,0)RC
Boot0003* Network Boot-IPV6: 98-28-A6-3A-1F-9C PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(9828a63a1f9c,0)/IPv6([::]:<->[::]:,0,0)RC
Boot2001* EFI USB Device RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM RC
Boot2003* EFI Network RC
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2 uname -r
5.15.0-78-generic
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2 grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi --uefi-secure-boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Error: no grub*.efi generated for Zorin OS 16.3 (16). Please report this message to boot.repair@gmail.com
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2 efibootmgr -v after grub install
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* Linpus lite HD(1,MBR,0x61429f07,0x24c,0x2740)/File(EFIBootgrubx64.efi)RC
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,94729f9c-80aa-4d4c-8f8b-c6c26d0817a0,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIubuntushimx64.efi)
Boot0002* Network Boot-IPV4: 98-28-A6-3A-1F-9C PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(9828a63a1f9c,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.00.0.0.0,0,0)RC
Boot0003* Network Boot-IPV6: 98-28-A6-3A-1F-9C PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(9828a63a1f9c,0)/IPv6([::]:<->[::]:,0,0)RC
Boot2001* EFI USB Device RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM RC
Boot2003* EFI Network RC
Error: NVram is locked (Zorin not found in efibootmgr). Please report this message to boot.repair@gmail.com
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2 update-grub
Sourcing file /etc/default/grub' Sourcing file /etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/zorin/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-83-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-83-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-78-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-78-generic
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdc1. Check your device.map.
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings
Unhide GRUB boot menu in sdb2/boot/grub/grub.cfg
An error occurred during the repair.
Error: NVram is locked (Zorin not found in efibootmgr). Please report this message to boot.repair@gmail.com
Locked-NVram detected. Please disable SecureBoot in the BIOS. Then try again.
============================ Boot Info After Repair ============================
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Boot file info: Grub2 (v2.00) in the file
/linuxmint-21.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso looks at sector 0
of the same hard drive for core.img, but core.img can
not be found at this location. Grub2 (v2.00) in the
file /linuxmint-21.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso looks at
sector 0 of the same hard drive for core.img, but
core.img can not be found at this location.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg
sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Zorin OS 16.3
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub
sdc: ___________________________________________________________________________
File system: iso9660
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: mount: /mnt/BootInfo/FD/sdc: /dev/sdc already mounted or mount point busy.
================================ 1 OS detected =================================
OS#1: Zorin OS 16.3 (16) on sdb2
================================ Host/Hardware =================================
CPU architecture: 64-bit
Video: UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake) GM108M [GeForce MX130] from Intel Corporation NVIDIA Corporation
Live-session OS is Zorin 64-bit (Zorin OS 16.3, focal, x86_64)
===================================== UEFI =====================================
BIOS/UEFI firmware: V1.14(1.14) from Insyde Corp.
The firmware is EFI-compatible, and is set in EFI-mode for this live-session.
SecureBoot enabled but mokutil says: SecureBoot enabled - Please report this message to boot.repair@gmail.com.
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* Linpus lite HD(1,MBR,0x61429f07,0x24c,0x2740)/File(\EFI\Boot\grubx64.efi)RC
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,94729f9c-80aa-4d4c-8f8b-c6c26d0817a0,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)
Boot0002* Network Boot-IPV4: 98-28-A6-3A-1F-9C PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(9828a63a1f9c,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.00.0.0.0,0,0)RC
Boot0003* Network Boot-IPV6: 98-28-A6-3A-1F-9C PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(9828a63a1f9c,0)/IPv6([::]:<->[::]:,0,0)RC
Boot2001* EFI USB Device RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM RC
Boot2003* EFI Network RC
a5e9b71b5ba86166bee504e1b254b7cf sdb1/BOOT/fbx64.efi
f75c300397e73f3fc7bfe46d49819bb2 sdb1/BOOT/mmx64.efi
78dce18613524e5ea5d6059f51b7178f sdb1/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
f75c300397e73f3fc7bfe46d49819bb2 sdb1/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
64349b3622c65f495a99dbf6102496e3 sdb1/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
64349b3622c65f495a99dbf6102496e3 sdb1/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi
============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________
sda : notGPT, no-BIOSboot, has-noESP, not-usb, not-mmc, no-os, no-wind, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes
sdb : is-GPT, no-BIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, no-wind, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes
Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios
sdb1 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far
sdb2 : is-os, 64, apt-get, signed grub-pc grub-efi , grub2, grub-install, grubenv-ok, update-grub, farbios
Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sdb1 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sdb2 : isnotESP, fstab-has-goodEFI, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : maybesepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sdb1 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sdb
sdb2 : not--sepboot, with-boot, fstab-without-boot, not-sep-usr, with--usr, fstab-without-usr, std-grub.d, sdb
fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________
Disk sda: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk identifier: 0xc6a1de30
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sda1 * 2048 1953523711 1953521664 931.5G 83 Linux
Disk sdb: 119.25 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk identifier: F3FDD71F-1E3F-4EB1-9230-DDBBAFACE452
Start End Sectors Size Type
sdb1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
sdb2 1050624 250068991 249018368 118.8G Linux filesystem
Disk sdc: 3.76 GiB, 4013948928 bytes, 7839744 sectors
Disk identifier: 0x61429f07
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sdc1 * 0 6109663 6109664 2.9G 0 Empty
sdc2 588 10635 10048 4.9M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
sdc3 6111232 7839743 1728512 844M 83 Linux
parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________
sda:1000GB:scsi:512:4096:msdos:ATA TOSHIBA MQ04ABF1:;
1:1049kB:1000GB:1000GB:ext4::boot;
sdb:128GB:scsi:512:512:gpt:ATA KINGSTON RBUSNS8:;
1:1049kB:538MB:537MB:fat32:EFI System Partition:boot, esp;
2:538MB:128GB:127GB:ext4::;
sdc:4014MB:scsi:512:512:msdos:JetFlash Transcend 4GB:;
2:301kB:5446kB:5145kB:::esp;
3:3129MB:4014MB:885MB:ext4::;
Free space >10MiB: ______________________________________________________________
sdc: 5.19MiB:2984MiB:2979MiB
blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________
NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL
sda
└─sda1 ext4 841966ef-5335-402f-af1a-36ca3b1a52d4 c6a1de30-01
sdb
├─sdb1 vfat 425D-B3AD 94729f9c-80aa-4d4c-8f8b-c6c26d0817a0 EFI System Partition
└─sdb2 ext4 ee80917b-9d66-4622-a470-ba35a565dba1 f8c914ba-8f0c-4706-8cb0-fa96a1a9d795
sdc iso9660 2023-07-26-12-24-07-00 Zorin OS 16.3 Core 64bit
├─sdc1 iso9660 2023-07-26-12-24-07-00 61429f07-01 Zorin OS 16.3 Core 64bit
├─sdc2 vfat 0613-6E83 61429f07-02
└─sdc3 ext4 3927dcf0-3677-4fda-abee-e1d8da87a616 61429f07-03 writable
Mount points (filtered): _______________________________________________________
Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2023-09-08.0/crash] 749.9M 1% /var/crash
/dev/disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2023-09-08.0/log] 749.9M 1% /var/log
/dev/sda1 769.2G 11% /mnt/boot-sav/sda1
/dev/sdb1 504.9M 1% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb1
/dev/sdb2 96.6G 12% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2
/dev/sdc1 0 100% /cdrom
Mount options (filtered): ______________________________________________________
/dev/disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2023-09-08.0/crash] ext4 rw,relatime
/dev/disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2023-09-08.0/log] ext4 rw,relatime
/dev/sda1 ext4 rw,relatime
/dev/sdb1 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
/dev/sdb2 ext4 rw,relatime
/dev/sdc1 iso9660 ro,noatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,iocharset=utf8
===================== sdb1/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
search.fs_uuid ee80917b-9d66-4622-a470-ba35a565dba1 root hd1,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
====================== sdb2/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
Zorin ee80917b-9d66-4622-a470-ba35a565dba1
Zorin, with Linux 5.15.0-83-generic ee80917b-9d66-4622-a470-ba35a565dba1
Zorin, with Linux 5.15.0-78-generic ee80917b-9d66-4622-a470-ba35a565dba1
END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober
UEFI Firmware Settings uefi-firmware
END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware
========================== sdb2/etc/fstab (filtered) ===========================
/ was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
UUID=ee80917b-9d66-4622-a470-ba35a565dba1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/boot/efi was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=425D-B3AD /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
======================= sdb2/etc/default/grub (filtered) =======================
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/zorin/theme.txt
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
==================== sdb2: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
0.500984192 = 0.537927680 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
48.792949677 = 52.391030784 boot/vmlinuz 1
60.964801788 = 65.460457472 boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-78-generic 1
48.792949677 = 52.391030784 boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-83-generic 1
60.964801788 = 65.460457472 boot/vmlinuz.old 1
63.107482910 = 67.761143808 boot/initrd.img 3
100.891597748 = 108.331528192 boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-78-generic 8
63.107482910 = 67.761143808 boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-83-generic 3
100.891597748 = 108.331528192 boot/initrd.img.old 8
===================== sdb2: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ======================
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18214 Jul 2 16:08 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42349 Jul 2 16:08 10_linux_zfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13101 Jul 2 16:08 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12059 Jul 2 16:08 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1424 Jul 2 16:08 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 700 May 11 02:21 35_fwupd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 Jul 2 16:08 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216 Jul 2 16:08 41_custom
=========================== sdb2/etc/grub.d/35_fwupd ===========================
#! /bin/sh
SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
set -e
[ -d ${pkgdatadir:?} ]
shellcheck source=/dev/null
. "$pkgdatadir/grub-mkconfig_lib"
if [ -f /var/lib/fwupd/uefi_capsule.conf ] &&
ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/fwupd-*-0abba7dc-e516-4167-bbf5-4d9d1c739416 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
. /var/lib/fwupd/uefi_capsule.conf
if [ "${EFI_PATH}" != "" ] && [ "${ESP}" != "" ]; then
echo "Adding Linux Firmware Updater entry" >&2
cat << EOF
menuentry 'Linux Firmware Updater' $menuentry_id_option 'fwupd' {
EOF
${grub_probe:?}
prepare_grub_to_access_device '${grub_probe} --target=device \${ESP} | sed -e "s/^/\t/"'
cat << EOF
chainloader ${EFI_PATH}
}
EOF
fi
fi
This states that in your BIOS Settings, Secure Boot is enabled.
This can easily lead to an NVRAM is locked error.
Please disable Secure Boot in your BIOS / EFI Settings.
Run
sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=ubuntu --recheck --debug /dev/sdb1
Once complete, run
sudo update-grub
I have no Secure Boot Option, it just says enabled but, it cant be changed. I have to go to mok management to disable it but the grub menu keeps popping up first. 
Sheesshh this is messed up. So sorry for this.
Please follow the steps outlined here:
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