#During the boot process, it hangs while trying to mount a drive

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grizzled nimbus
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The drive works just fine, and it all booted ok after 30 minutes. I restarted my machine because I needed to change an option in the BIOS and now linux won't boot. Windows boots fine. (EndeavourOS)

latent timber
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idk i never used EndeavourOS

grizzled nimbus
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thanks for the contribution

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could you at least give me a hint towards the problem? Endeavour is based on Arch anyways so maybe it will work?

latent timber
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i never used arch as well

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im a debian contributor

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tho could you uhh

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open grub

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@grizzled nimbus

grizzled nimbus
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wow

latent timber
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wa..

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did i do something... wrong

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or just uhh

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undo the setting in bios,,?

grizzled nimbus
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already did

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that's not the issue

latent timber
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hmm

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does it just hang

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like uhh

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_

grizzled nimbus
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yeah no error mesasge

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it just displays "mounting /media/Data" and it does not proceed further

latent timber
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screenshot if possible pwese

grizzled nimbus
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fstab is fine

grizzled nimbus
latent timber
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ah

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if you can tell - what file system

grizzled nimbus
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ext4

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like the linux drive is ext4

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the drive that it tries to mount is ntfs

latent timber
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dualboot yes?

grizzled nimbus
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yes

latent timber
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hmm

grizzled nimbus
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i have windows on one drive, linux on another and use grub as a bootloader to pick what i wanna boot

latent timber
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i know this may sound dum ahh

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can you go to grub and select recovery mode

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im sorry if this is dumb-

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aaaaaaa

grizzled nimbus
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ok let me try give one sec

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lowkey sound like an egirl/femboy

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cool stuff

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Ok i'm in recovery mode

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Now what

latent timber
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does it work

grizzled nimbus
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Boy wdym does it work

latent timber
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i mean does it boot-

grizzled nimbus
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Dude

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It's just a command line

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It's just

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grub>

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Ok i tried booting on fallback initramfs

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It now hangs on mounting /boot/efi instead

latent timber
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hmm

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grep efi /etc/fstab
sudo blkid | grep fat

grizzled nimbus
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Ok hol on

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Still not working

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I can't run those

steep vine
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Do you have duplicate entries in /etc/fstab

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I had a similar issue at one point, and the culprit was having duplicate fstab entries

grizzled nimbus
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No don't think so

steep vine
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check

grizzled nimbus
steep vine
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Running genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab more than once by accident

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or however you generated your fstabs

grizzled nimbus
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I didn't run anything related to fstab

steep vine
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oh

grizzled nimbus
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I updated my repos

steep vine
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thats why

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you need to generate your fstabs

grizzled nimbus
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Why do i need to re-create it?

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This isn't a new install

steep vine
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oh

steep vine
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Did you use the -U flag

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If you didn't, then regenerate fstabs. Drive names can change.

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the ID for the drive cannot change

grizzled nimbus
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It got generated when i ran the endeavouros setup so I have no idea how their installer does it

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Didn't change drive names, and didn't change the id

steep vine
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oh i forgot that youre using endeavour...

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regenerate your fstabs

grizzled nimbus
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Have not mounted any new drives

steep vine
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remove all the text, other than comments, from /etc/fstab

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then you have to run a command

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lemme find the command

grizzled nimbus
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Do i just use the grub command line?

steep vine
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@grizzled nimbus wait actually

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you should get the arch iso

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mount the drives

grizzled nimbus
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Can i do it through arch-chroot?

steep vine
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then generate the fstabs

steep vine
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make sure to remove all the contents that aren't comments from /etc/fstab

grizzled nimbus
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So i need to boot the arch iso, mount the drives then do chroot to the drive i need?

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And then regenerate the fstab?

steep vine
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then you run genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

steep vine
steep vine
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regenerate with -U flag

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if that doesn't work, idk what to do

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reinstall if it doesnt work?

grizzled nimbus
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Haven't done it in a while

grizzled nimbus
steep vine
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ah

grizzled nimbus
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Not super important but like all my dotfiles n shit

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Haven't updated my github in a while

steep vine
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ah

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update the repo from command line

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it should be easy

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i have my entirety of .config as symlinks to ~/dotfiles

grizzled nimbus
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It mounted /boot

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Now it’s stuck on

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Mounted Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System

wary gale
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Send screenshots :

grizzled nimbus
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How do i take a screenshot during the boot process

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Can i send an image of my screen?

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Or actually now it gets stuck on a different thing

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It gets stuck on “Reached target Basic System”

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@wary gale

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Apparently it just randomly gets stuck on anything after mounting /boot

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Now it's stuck on "Finished Set Up Additional Binary Formats"

wary gale
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I was just asking bc i had a similar issue

grizzled nimbus
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oooooh

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np

wary gale
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I thought it was the display manager but i uninstalled and installed it again, so if that was the issue, it would've been solved

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I just had a fresh install
I still don't know what the real issue was

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You can check logs tho
And maybe you'll figure out the error