[SOLVED] trying to mount a hard drive let to my system booting itself in emergency mode

[urban oar]

as the title says i tried to mount a hard drive of mine and now i can no longer boot into my system properly
the commands i used were as follows
lsblk
genfstab -U / > ~/fstab
sudo mv -i ~/fstab /etc/fstab
these were given to me by a friend helping me mount the drive
i must state the drive is not external and has always had issues being mounted on linux in general, but never to this extent

i think i should also state i only have two drives atm, a 500gb ssd (which arch is installed on), and a spare 320 gb hdd (the one i was trying to mount)

[rough mist]

Maybe your drive is failing?

Remove it from the fstab and mount it using your DE

@urban oar

[urban oar]

it's not, i mounted temporarily with dolphin and it worked

[rough mist]

Oh wait xfs?

[rancid wren]

you should consider adding nofail when mounting your drives

[urban oar]

didnt know that was a command

i was just following orders from a friend

should also taste i have only used arch linux for

[rough mist]

That's fine

[urban oar]

two days?

yeah

two

[rancid wren]

its not a command, you specify it in /etc/fstab, and if the drive fails to mount your system can still continue booting

[urban oar]

oh

ok well the first thing that needs solving is getting out of emergency mode bc i cannot do that

[rough mist]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XFS#fsck.xfs_fails_in_systemd-based_initramfs

Also look at this

[urban oar]

i have been unable to for two days whole days (which means i've had it installed for four days)

[urban oar]

yeah i was told the file system i chose might have something to do with it

[rough mist]

That should fix it tho

[urban oar]

okay

how do i do that

i'm rlly sorry its just i barely know my way around the terminal

[rough mist]

Then open this file using dolphin

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf

[urban oar]

i need to get out of emergency mode first

[rough mist]

Find the HOOKS = ( something here) part

Edit it to look something like this

HOOKS= (base systemd .....)

[urban oar]

i must stress again, i have not been able to get out of emergency mode for two days

[rough mist]

You need to edit the fstab

Either through a livecd

Or some other os

[urban oar]

i still have my live usb

i'l reboot into that

[rough mist]

Perfect then

I'm assuming it's Manjaro?

[urban oar]

uh no

regular arch

[rough mist]

[urban oar]

why did you assume it was manjaro

😭

[rough mist]

You were just so... Unfamiliar

[urban oar]

should i have tagged this with archinstall

[rough mist]

That's fine

[urban oar]

yeah like i said, only two days of using arch linux before this happened

lucky me

[rough mist]

Oh yeah, I didn't see the edit, I thought you were only stuck in the emergency shell

[urban oar]

will this be trickier without a DE

[rough mist]

It's the same

Just "sudo nano /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"

I don't think even sudo is necessary

[urban oar]

in the live iso?

[rough mist]

Yeah, just mount the disk to /mnt

[urban oar]

alright just give me a sec

hmmm

[rough mist]

Yeah?

[urban oar]

what next

[rough mist]

I don't think you mounted your disk yet

Try lsblk

Exit first by spamming with Ctrl x iirc

[urban oar]

read this just as i turned off my pc...

i am a truly astounding specimen

[rough mist]

Name checks out

[gaunt remnant]

part of the learning curve XD

[urban oar]

last one should be my ssd

do i need to mention i made a separate partition for my home folder

[rough mist]

So that's why you have 3 partitions

[urban oar]

guess i did need to

[rough mist]

So the home partition would be the 418gb one?

Then "mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt"

[urban oar]

it has the most space so i'd assume so

[rough mist]

Yeah, we'll see

[urban oar]

ok i did this

[urban oar]

do i do this again?

[rough mist]

Yeah

You can skip the sudo

But it's gonna be the same I guess

[urban oar]

it says "directory 'mount/etc' does not exist"

:/

let me redo the command and see if i messed something up bc knowing me i probably did

yep, it was my mistake

silly me

[rough mist]

Wait

Did you put base there or was it already there?

[urban oar]

it was already there

[rough mist]

Oh then it won't fix it

We'll check the problem later

We just need to get you into a bootable system for now so

nano /etc/fstab

[rough mist]

And add what he said

[urban oar]

:(

[rough mist]

Oh

Nothing was there

There's the apparent issue

Ok, so exit from there

[urban oar]

wdym

[rough mist]

Lemme show you

so we mounted the root partition right?

So now let's mount the boot and home partitions

[urban oar]

yeah

[urban oar]

alright

[rough mist]

To their proper directories

[urban oar]

i mounted them

[rough mist]

Can you show the lsblk

[rough mist]

No

Lol

[urban oar]

what'd i do wrong

[rough mist]

Unmount everything

Let's do it from the beginning

[urban oar]

how

idk the command

[rough mist]

umount /mnt

[urban oar]

okie dokie

[rough mist]

Now do this

[urban oar]

uhhh

[rough mist]

Then "mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot"

Yes

Can you show the lsblk

[rough mist]

Perfect

[urban oar]

:D

[rough mist]

Now

Then "mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/home"

[rough mist]

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

[rough mist]

Now do this command again, there should be a difference

*nano /mnt/etc/fstab

[urban oar]

oh there's stuff now

yay!

the ntfs drive is the hdd

[rough mist]

Reboot

[urban oar]

like

now?

like reboot reboot?

[rough mist]

Oh wait

I just checked and there's duplicate entries

Do this instead

genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

[rough mist]

Alright

Quick question

Are you using grub?

I have to go jn a few mins but I think you should also do

arch-chroot /mnt

Then "mkinitcpio -P"

[urban oar]

yes

[rough mist]

Then grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Then reboot

[urban oar]

do i just manually reboot

oh, one last thing

[rough mist]

Exit first

[urban oar]

this won't wipe any of my data will it?

[rough mist]

Then reboot

Nah

[urban oar]

oh thank god

[flat iron]

pqts received a thank you cookie!

[rough mist]

We could nuke it tho with a fresh install

All of your data should be on /dev/nvme0n1p3

[urban oar]

no.

ok rebooted

what now

[rough mist]

System should be up and runnin?

[urban oar]

oh

do i get rid of my live usb then?

[rough mist]

Yea

[urban oar]

it worked!!

thank you

uhh

im gonna go play doom now

tho i still need to now how to mount it permanently but ehh

i can live with manually mounting every bootup if it means ill never have to do this again

[urban oar]

(CLOSED) trying to mount a hard drive let to my system booting itself in emergency mode

(SOLVED) trying to mount a hard drive let to my system booting itself in emergency mode

[SOLVED] trying to mount a hard drive let to my system booting itself in emergency mode

[rough mist]

You don't have to, you can just edit the same fstab to mount your drive

[urban oar]

doing that is what caused me to get in this situation in the first place