My Internet reset while I was forwarding the most recent updates, and I don’t know if that did it or not, but it went to a black screen with some text and when I tried to manually restart, it takes me to a screen that has gnu grub version 2.12, and has options for Linux mint mate 22.3 advanced options for the same, or uefi firmware settings. mint is my only os. I hit enter for it, and it says busybox v1.36.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.36.1-6ubuntu3.1) built-in shell (ash) enter ”help” for a list of built in commands (initramfs)
it did say something about needing a manual fsck the first time, but I tried to follow a guide for that online with no idea what I was doing, and it changed to this and I can’t get it to go back. when I type help, it gives me a bunch of words I don’t understand . if I type one of them (like test) it doesn’t seem to do anything and just gives me the same in parentheses text again. if I type fsck from this, it tells me fsck from until-linux 2.39.3. it also does it when I type in fsck -y /dev/sda1 which id that the guide had said to do now.
What do I do? PLEASE give me computer idiot speak. I got mint because I don’t understand a my of the tech-y stuff that the guides were saying, which is why I think the prompt changed as I was trying to get any of the advice in the articles to work.