Reinstalling Grub after removing another distro

Hello, I am new here, and first, thanks to this beautiful distro and great work here.
I did remove an old Endeavour partition, and of course, messed my boot menu.

I have been able to manually launch my Garuda from grub rescue, however, I have not been able to reinitiate completely my boot, given than the next reboot did bring me again on the grub rescue.

Thanks for your help and have a nice day!

inxi -Faz
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.12-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=14c396d6-5048-45b2-903b-042f341ab1a3 rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
    vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: U36JC v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: U36JC v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: U36JC.205 date: 01/26/2011
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 65.0 Wh (99.1%) condition: 65.6/81.2 Wh (80.8%)
    volts: 16.5 min: 14.4 model: ASUSTek U36-58 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5 M 480 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Westmere
    family: 6 model-id: 0x25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 0x7
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2009 high: 2446 min/max: 1199/2667 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1263 2: 2110
    3: 2218 4: 2446 bogomips: 21279
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode;
    SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GT218M [GeForce 310M] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau
    v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a70 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Chicony Asus Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-1.2:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b1b9 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
    loaded: intel,nouveau unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
  Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 120
    size: 290x160mm (11.4x6.3") diag: 331mm (13")
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.12-zen1-1-zen running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: AzureWave AW-NB037H 802.11bgn driver: ath9k v: kernel
    bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:002b class-ID: 0280
  IF: wls1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK U6V/U31J laptop driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 8000
    bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: ens5 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR3011 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-1.1:3 chip-ID: 0cf3:3005 class-ID: e001
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 9.92 GiB (4.3%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 Series
    size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 9B0Q scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 73.47 GiB size: 73.47 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 9.92 GiB (13.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9
  ID-2: /home raw-size: 73.47 GiB size: 73.47 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 9.92 GiB (13.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9
  ID-3: /var/log raw-size: 73.47 GiB size: 73.47 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 9.92 GiB (13.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9
  ID-4: /var/tmp raw-size: 73.47 GiB size: 73.47 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 9.92 GiB (13.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.55 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 41.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 201 Uptime: 2h 17m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.55 GiB
  used: 1.36 GiB (18.0%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1315 lib: 313 Shell: fish
  v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.12 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.11

Have you tried the "restore GRUB" option in the Garuda Assistant application?

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Hello jonathon, I did try but it failed, I guess this was a chroot error message: could not set up chroot environment.

Have you tried reinstalling the GRUB?
I see your disk is MBR, so I'd try

sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-grub

Also check your /etc/fstab for remaining removed partitions.

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Hi filo, thanks for your suggestion.

Thanks it seems like it did work this time.
I am sure I did try that earlier as well and had a failing grub in recovery mode.
It is now booting correctly.
Thank you all for your help and support.

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