error loading into arch, cant boot

[spare heath]

i need help again, same issue as before i tried to arch-chroot into my system but i cant mnt boot, im unsure wtf is wrong with it and i dont want to reinstall due to the fact i have code not backed up on my system, the errors i get are these^

no matter what i do it just says "error you need to load kernel first" or itll bluescreen

running arch on my main pc, i have multiple harddrives plugged in, so if anyone asks to see them youll see theres a few harddrives

i just need to try fix it

i cant load any fallbacks or anything, i dont have a recent backup or anything, just need to fix

i dont have secure boot enabled, this happened before and someone helped fix but its done it again, not sure why, it randomly does this and i cant get it to work again, any ideas or suggestions / help im open to

[open kestrel]

You didn't specify your root device properly

Do you have the USB you used for installation

[spare heath]

yeah

i always keep a liveboot

[spark aspen]

Arch-chroot and remount partitions

[spare heath]

alright if i load up you want to try and explain and see if that works?

i did that last time but couldnt remount boot

[spark aspen]

your EFS needs to be formatted as VFAT, your root needs to be mounted first, then if you have a seperate home partition mount that under root, and your EFS to /mnt/boot

[spare heath]

i cant mnt boot

it wont mnt boot

[spark aspen]

That means root isn't mounted properly

[spare heath]

i can mnt yes but no mnt/boot

i have the 1tb then a 1gig for boot

but it wont mnt boot when trying

[spark aspen]

Huh

[spare heath]

want to me to show you?

[open kestrel]

You need to update your kernel parameters to have the correct rootfs uuid

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) i always keep a liveboot

FAT32 also works

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) your EFS needs to be formatted as VFAT, your root needs to be mounted first, then if you have a sepe…

[spark aspen]

mount /dev/sdx /mnt
mount --mkdir /dev/sdyn /mnt/boot

[spare heath]

loading up my liveboot

[spark aspen]

Replace sdx win your root partition, replace sdyn with your boot partition

[spare heath]

ill try i doubt itll work, this shit caused me so many issues with it working randomly then not working the next day

[spark aspen]

make sure to mkdir /mnt/boot if you don't add the --mkdir parameter to mount when mounting boot

[open kestrel]

You need to specify a rootfs partition

in kernel parameters

[spare heath]

loading up live boot now

[spark aspen]

God these headphones drained my phones battery like me drinking water

[spare heath]

ill have to do lsblk so i can see hdds

[spark aspen]

ok

[spare heath]

make sure i'm doing right one, i got way to my drives plugged

ill show you what happens when i try mnt boot normally

pretty sure my linux is sdb

thats what happens if i try mnt boot normally

[spark aspen]

Yeah you haven't created the mount point

[spare heath]

alright ill do what you said now

[spark aspen]

Try this

[spare heath]

this?

[spark aspen]

Yeah

but replace the partition names with the correct ones

[spare heath]

gonna guess that this is not normal

wait? i think this worked

[spark aspen]

If no response then it wirked

[spare heath]

shii now what i do

[spark aspen]

Reinstall the kernel

[spare heath]

will i lose anything?

[spark aspen]

Unless you have a modified kernel, I don't think so

Wait

@hearty copper

Could they lose data from reinstalling the kernel?

[spare heath]

i just want to fix the issue of it not loading so i dont lose the code i have saved on my pc etc

otherwise i woulda reinstalled

[spark aspen]

Kernel reinstallation shouldn't affect your data

[spare heath]

alright, then please explain exactly what i do haha

[spark aspen]

uname -r

[open kestrel]

Ni

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) Could they lose data from reinstalling the kernel?

No

[spark aspen]

sudo pacman -S linux-zen linux-zen-headers should work

Wait nvm what kernel are you using

[open kestrel]

Wait a second

What's the UUID of your rootfs

[spare heath]

how do i check?

[spark aspen]

i don't think the problem is their rootfs

[open kestrel]

blkid

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) how do i check?

[spark aspen]

Lsblk

[spare heath]

alright lemme load back up

[open kestrel]

the one you mounted on /mnt in the live usb is the rootfs

[spark aspen]

Y'know you don't need to keep going in and out of live boot

[spare heath]

my pc crashed, so it restarted

[spark aspen]

Oh

[open kestrel]

Okay uhh which one of these is mounted on root

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[(click to see attachment)](#1322213308044021781 message)

[spare heath]

im going to guess sdb

[spark aspen]

sdb1

[spare heath]

sdb2

[spark aspen]

Oh

[spare heath]

idk

[spark aspen]

Yh

[spare heath]

its one of them

[open kestrel]

fsck on the rootfs

Also run a SMART test on all of them

[spare heath]

send commands lmao

[open kestrel]

It's complaining about being unable to mount rootfs

what filesystem do you use on /dev/sdb2

[spare heath]

im unsure 😭

[spark aspen]

check

[spare heath]

how do i check

[open kestrel]

blkid

the command is blkid

[open kestrel]

btrfs device check /dev/sdb2 iirc

[spare heath]

how and why are you typing with a webhoov

[open kestrel]

don't question
I'll tell later

You have a bigger problem rn, don't you

[spare heath]

yeah

i genuinely hate this setup, i hate that i gotta use this shit for work lmao

[open kestrel]

Is this BTRFS setup spanned across the disks using BTRFS RAID

[spark aspen]

oh

It's ntfs

[open kestrel]

NTFS is in a dual boot from what I see

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) It's ntfs

[spark aspen]

sdb2 is ntfs

[open kestrel]

rootfs is ntfs?

[spark aspen]

Apparently

[open kestrel]

It's btrfs

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) sdb2 is ntfs

[spare heath]

system has 1 windows boot and 1 linux the other hdds are backups

[spark aspen]

I think they mounted the wrong drive

[spare heath]

all are using different hdds

[open kestrel]

sdb2 is btrfs

[spark aspen]

Oh

[open kestrel]

run a check on sdb2

[spare heath]

how

[open kestrel]

Did you mount it at /mnt

[spare heath]

lemme do that now

[open kestrel]

no, unmount it

[spare heath]

oh

[open kestrel]

btrfs check /dev/sdb2

[open kestrel]

I have bad news for you

Your disk might be broken

[spare heath]

no shit 😂

anyways mounted

[open kestrel]

Unmount

[spark aspen]

no no no

[open kestrel]

and request a filesystem check

[spark aspen]

I think sda2 might be the correct root

[open kestrel]

and also a SMART test

[spare heath]

sdb2 is the right one lol

all the others are windows

[open kestrel]

It is, now please check it for errors

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) I think sda2 might be the correct root

[spare heath]

so theres no way its the wrong one

[spark aspen]

Try sda2

[spare heath]

but isnt sda2 sth different

[open kestrel]

I would strongly advise a smart test as well

[spark aspen]

No

It's also btrfs

[open kestrel]

btrfs check /dev/sdb2
smartctl -t short /dev/sdb

[spark aspen]

No it's fat

[spark aspen]

Why are your screenshots wonkey

[spare heath]

using phone lol

[open kestrel]

unmount /dev/sdb2

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[(click to see attachment)](#1322213308044021781 message)

[spark aspen]

I know

[open kestrel]

umount /dev/sdb2

[spare heath]

okie

[open kestrel]

Then rerun btrfs check /dev/sdb2

[spare heath]

its checking

[open kestrel]

The filesystem is fine

now request a smart test

[spare heath]

okay

[open kestrel]

a short one

smartctl -t short /dev/sdb

not sdb2, you run smart tests on disks

[open kestrel]

Now wait for 2 minutes

[spare heath]

its doing it now

what a way to spend my birthday lol

[open kestrel]

after that you can check the results with smartctl -x /dev/sdb

[spare heath]

no happy birthdays just errors

[open kestrel]

Happy birthday!

x ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) what a way to spend my birthday lol

[spark aspen]

Happy birthday

[spare heath]

this isnt happy anything 😭😂

[open kestrel]

Aw sorry

[spark aspen]

Welcome to Arch Linux

[spare heath]

i got 3months worth of code on this pc

i need it back

also has certain work related code on here

[open kestrel]

smartctl -x /dev/sdb

seek for the word PASSED

[spare heath]

when do i type what you sisf

said

[open kestrel]

Now

[spark aspen]

God I hate partition tables

[open kestrel]

It's been more than 2 minutes

[spark aspen]

Did not pass

[open kestrel]

smartctl -x /dev/sdb | grep passed

It maybe did

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) Did not pass

[spark aspen]

But it doesn't say

But it does say failed

[hearty copper]

pk;edit #1322213308044021781 message smartctl -x /dev/sdb | grep -i passed

[open kestrel]

grep -i passed

in the command

[spare heath]

it says passed in red

[open kestrel]

Okay now you can mount it again

[spare heath]

okay

[open kestrel]

And mount the boot under the appropriate directory

and reinstall kernel

[open kestrel]

Which should trigger a regeneration of initramfs

[worn summit]

Are you using subvolumes?

Because if you are you want to mount the root subvolume, not the BTRFS partition itself

[open kestrel]

If rootfs is a subvolume, it should be specified on the kernel args

[spare heath]

well ive mounted now what i type 😂

[open kestrel]

ls /mnt

[worn summit]

Yeah you're using subvolumes

Delete that boot directory with rm -rf /mnt/boot

[spark aspen]

Wait how do you spec that to the kernel

[spare heath]

it errored anyways

[open kestrel]

rootfs=UUID=xxxx rw subvol=root

and the kernel args go on

[spark aspen]

Ohh

[open kestrel]

Ya that disk scares me

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[(click to see attachment)](#1322213308044021781 message)

[spare heath]

yeah it scares me too

what i do now lol

[open kestrel]

if the disk triggers an ATA error during the mdraid, lvm, fsck, mount, etc. operations before the initramfs hands the control off to the kernel, it panics

Do you have another hard drive lying around

[spare heath]

nope

not that i can use anywYs

[open kestrel]

you need to backup your drive and get a replacement asap :/

[spare heath]

this harddrive bad?

[worn summit]

You don't want to be too quick to assume that it's a bad drive

[spark aspen]

Yeah it passed the smart check

[open kestrel]

You should also check if it didn't displace in its socket

[spare heath]

bro you wanna see the harddrive???

[open kestrel]

smart is a check the drive performs on itself

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) Yeah it passed the smart check

[spare heath]

its hanging out the back

[spark aspen]

Oh

[open kestrel]

Not me, but you would like to take a look

x ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) bro you wanna see the harddrive???

[spark aspen]

That could be the reason

[open kestrel]

Ya check if the connector fits properly

x ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) its hanging out the back

Also don't trust the friction between female and male SATA connectors against gravity

Did you ever drop your drive

[spare heath]

nah

so what should i do?

this not gonna work again?

[open kestrel]

Fit that drive in

It will work

It seems to be healthy

[spare heath]

i cant lol

i havent got any more wires

the wire is to shirt

short

[open kestrel]

can you put something under it

[spare heath]

so has to sit like that

nope annoying

[open kestrel]

So it stays level

[spare heath]

also, how would this fix the loading error

[open kestrel]

It might be annoying but it's better than hanging your drive

x ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) nope annoying

By not causing a random connection failure

x ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) also, how would this fix the loading error

also check the socket

[spark aspen]

HDDs should be deprecated

[spare heath]

either way none of these would fix the kernel issue

[open kestrel]

They would
The kernel complains about being unable to find rootfs

x ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) either way none of these would fix the kernel issue

And we saw where rootfs is: its connection to the SCSI port is questionable

[spare heath]

yeah not sure why it does that

[open kestrel]

Seismic events might be displacing your HDD

so that the contact breaks

put something under it
Hanging that HDD is dangerous

The HDD should be resting level

And there shouldn't be tension on the wire

[spare heath]

doesnt wanna load at all now

[spark aspen]

So it was the physical connection to the drive

[open kestrel]

Ya your disk is sliding over the SCSI comnector

And gets disconnected

Put something under it please

[spare heath]

how

[spark aspen]

Prop it up somehow

Make sure it's either flat or vertical

[spare heath]

most i can do

[open kestrel]

The friction between the male and female SCSI connectors is not enough to resist the weight of the disk

Sparkles-Tellulu @ Namsis ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) And gets disconnected

[open kestrel]

do you have any space behind the case

[spare heath]

nope

[open kestrel]

aw

Can you bring the case to front a little bit

[spare heath]

i cant boot into it at all now

[open kestrel]

The disk displaced

power your machine off before any more damage happens

[spare heath]

restarted pc and unplugged resit now it doesnt boot to anything haha

[open kestrel]

Unplugged what

[spare heath]

the hdd

i moved the wires abit

to try resit

[open kestrel]

Mhm

did you plug it back in

[spare heath]

yeah that hdd is dead lol

[open kestrel]

I'm sorry for your loss

offers hug

[spare heath]

its fine caused me to many issues

atleast i can sell this pc now

[open kestrel]

You have your work stuff in it you said

[spare heath]

maybe do SOMETHING for my birthday

yeah i already realized this gon die

[open kestrel]

I'm sorry

I'm so sorry

[spare heath]

so fuck it, ill sell the pc get something for my birthday maybe even go and buy food lmao

so how are you typing using the webhook?

[open kestrel]

PluralKit

i am one of the 98 beings residing in the same head

[spare heath]

ah nice

bru what a banging birthday though

yeah this is definitely done for

[spare heath]

@hearty copper ^

nothing else was showing on the drive so guessing its wiped anyways

[open kestrel]

probably worse things than just wipe

[spare heath]

lol, hate this shit

[spark aspen]

You could probably get the data recovered by a professional who knows how to deal with magnetic memory

[spare heath]

is the reason why it shows nothing on drive now due to me doing /mnt/boot like adding one ?

@worn summit

what if i grab another harddrive itd just be an external one and use that as main drive? would it be possible to swap over main things to it? aka files and everything

i think it might be due to the fact of i made a mnt/boot file

so its trying to boot from that maybe?

since the boot file now is empty

@spark aspen

so maybe if i delete that file i created

@worn summit

what i do here? @spark aspen

@hearty copper

im tryna remove the boot file i made

[open kestrel]

ls /mnt/boot

rm /mnt/boot/filename

[spare heath]

because this is what it says now im bios but files still show up on my liveboot

so gonna guess i messed sth up earlier

aka, the making of the mnt boot file

[spare heath]

^

would that be why its not showing up anymore?

i needa undo whatever we did

all i know is we mounted boot to a file we made

so removing that file should fix that issue right?

@hearty copper does that seem right?

[open kestrel]

What did you wipe

[spare heath]

because the files show up on live boot, but, i cant boot into the hdd anymore normally

i havent wiped anything

all we've done is make a boot file

[open kestrel]

Hmm

[spare heath]

lemme show you

im loading up live boot

[open kestrel]

What bootloader did you use to use

[spare heath]

grub

[open kestrel]

.arch-chan-uwu grub

[bold trellis]

Grub

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Grub

[open kestrel]

Reinstall grub

[spare heath]

im just trying to fix

can you helo with that

adding grub to the boot file should fix things

[open kestrel]

I don't feel well but I'll try

[spare heath]

thank you

lemme remount to the correct paths then we can start

[open kestrel]

Idk how the boot file works because my system doesn't recognise it :p

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[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) adding grub to the boot file should fix things

What I do is black magic in uefi shell

[spare heath]

ah should i jus delete the file and hopefully itll work again

[open kestrel]

Maybe

[spare heath]

see it still shows there

[open kestrel]

Reinstalling grub should work on your implementation of uefi tho

[spare heath]

so it should still be there

[open kestrel]

Unmount

[spare heath]

yeah the files are definitely in there

[open kestrel]

When remounting, specify the switch -o subvol=root

[spare heath]

so all files are there just gotta fix the issue of it not loading at all now

[open kestrel]

Then arch-chroot into it and do mount -a

Ya I'm telling you the safest way to do that

x ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) so all files are there just gotta fix the issue of it not loading at all now

[spare heath]

okay bet

step by step

[open kestrel]

1. unmount everything you mounted

[spare heath]

done

[open kestrel]

2. Mount your root subvolume, specify your root subvolume while mounting with -o subvol=@ (or whatever your root subvolume is called)

[spare heath]

what do you mean by that

[open kestrel]

You can see subvolumes with btrfs subvolumeisf

[spare heath]

i know my root is sdb2

[open kestrel]

instead of doing mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt do mount -o subvol=xxx /dev/sdb2 /mnt

where xxx is your subvolume name

[open kestrel]

You can find it from btrfs subvolume list

[open kestrel]

Okay uhh

can you try mount -o subvol=@ /dev/sdb2 /mnt

[open kestrel]

What do you see when you list /mnt

[spare heath]

thats right correct?

[open kestrel]

It is

[spare heath]

perfect

so now we can fix the silly issues

[open kestrel]

arch-chroot /mnt

mount -a

[spare heath]

after this is fixed im backing up my entire hdd and moving it to a 8tb

[open kestrel]

Good luck

[open kestrel]

Hmm

[arctic owl]

Can you show the full screen in the photos

[open kestrel]

Then do chroot /mnt

I guess

[arctic owl]

That won’t work

[spare heath]

yeah it didnt

lol

[open kestrel]

Well we need to install a bootloader

[spare heath]

do i not have one?

[arctic owl]

Loads of things are missing

[spare heath]

im guessing since i made a new /boot i dont have any bootloader

rightv

[arctic owl]

What operating system and what filesystem were installed?

[spare heath]

arch linux, she knows rhe filesystem

i think thats the right pronouns

my bad if not

[open kestrel]

She

[spare heath]

ah shit

i couldnt see ur profile

[open kestrel]

she/it/fae :p

[spare heath]

my bad

[open kestrel]

anyways

Btrfs

x ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) arch linux, "he" knows rhe filesystem

With subvolumes

[spare heath]

i had an issue before but then we made a /mnt/boot file and then it wouldnt boot at all

so im guessing i need to fix that

[arctic owl]

Was sbd2 root, or a partition just for snapshots?

[spare heath]

im not as advanced with arch

[open kestrel]

It's the entire rootfs

vegancookies ↩️

[Reply to:](#1322213308044021781 message) Was sbd2 root, or a partition just for snapshots?

[spare heath]

sdb2 is root pretty sure

[open kestrel]

From what I see

[arctic owl]

Where is /var for example?

[open kestrel]

If it was a BTRFS RAID it would have already been assembled

[spare heath]

this only now doesnt boot at all because of the new /boot (im guessing)

[open kestrel]

It doesn't have a bootloader

[arctic owl]

There’s loads missing

[open kestrel]

That's why it doesn't boot

[spare heath]

yeah

it DID have one which had issues of not loading

now doesnt have one

so how do i fix?

[arctic owl]

That’s one issue, but it doesn’t have a var, dev, etc

This is not an arch root partition

[open kestrel]

this doesn't even fit into the FHS

[arctic owl]

Not unless someone has been deleting everything

[open kestrel]

snap makes me think about ubuntu

[arctic owl]

Same

[open kestrel]

Anyways I'm going to sleep my throat is too sore
good night, hope y'all find a solution

[arctic owl]

You need to put out there information like what the install was- was it Ubuntu?

[worn summit]

Try running pacstrap /mnt filesystem with the root subvolume mounted

That might fix some of the missing directories

[arctic owl]

I wonder what the fstab should look like 😂

[spare heath]

it does

hol up how i unmount

it does have /var and shit

theyre just in different folders

i mounted to it now

how do i get bootloader back though?

[arctic owl]

not when you ran ls on it

[spare heath]

because she told me to mount into @

[spare heath]

i did this

i did it in wrong mounted part i think though @hearty copper

[arctic owl]

since running the command it's created it

but before then we can see it wasn't

[spare heath]

mightve been in a different folder though

so how do i fix booting?

@home as my user n shit in it /boot has nothing

[arctic owl]

is reading that hard?
bin lib lib64 mnt opt sbin snap srv usr
It's all right there, right after sdb2 was mounted to /mnt
so we have no idea why you were missing a load of important root directories, and you don't seem to be able to tell us, that implies something very wrong has happened. Presumably home is mounted elsewhere. Do you have anything important installed on root?

[arctic owl]

what??

[spare heath]

im not sure but @home as my user etc in it

aka

[arctic owl]

have you done this with the partition being mounted but not as a subvolrume?

[spare heath]

yep...

i thought i had subvol mounted

not part

[worn summit]

Delete the directories that just got created

Be careful not to delete any of the subvolumes

[spare heath]

how do i remove them lmao

[spare heath]

remove everything that isnt in this ss?

[worn summit]

yeah

rm -rf [directory]

So cd into that directory and do rm -rf usr boot opt etc... etc....

[spare heath]

like that?

@worn summit correct?

should i remove that boot folder?

[arctic owl]

it should look like this one

[spare heath]

yeah it does now

should i remove the boot folder

theres nothing in it

from sdb2

[arctic owl]

my guess is that would be fine but double check with @worn summit

[spare heath]

yeah just waiting on his response

because i think creating that boot folder fucked it last time

[worn summit]

Looks good to me

[spare heath]

so remove boot folderv

[worn summit]

Oh yeah remove that too

[spare heath]

done

[arctic owl]

it really didn't, that whole parttion looks fairly fucked to me

[spare heath]

will it actually boot now lol or will i have issues

[arctic owl]

personally I'd just be backing up all the home files I want to keep and reinstalling, but that's me

[spare heath]

it worked before i jus had a different issue then adding a boot folder made the actual hdd not even boot up at all

[worn summit]

Now unmount that partition, and mount your root subvolume with mount -o subvol=@ /dev/sdb2 /mnt

[spare heath]

okay

i forgot to add mount

[worn summit]

mount

[spare heath]

OOPs

done

right now im in right place right?

in the root folder theres only snap ?

[worn summit]

I was going to have you mount the package cache but var seems to be gone lol

Try running the pacstrap command now

[spare heath]

whats the command again?

[worn summit]

pacstrap /mnt base

Run this instead this time

[spare heath]

done

[worn summit]

Hm I thought that might happen

[worn summit]

Because var is gone, so is the list of installed packages

[spare heath]

got that var folder now

is that how it should be?

[worn summit]

You can try chrooting now

[worn summit]

yeah

[spare heath]

arch-chroot /mnt?

this isnt my arch lol

unless its meant to be like that?

[arctic owl]

my question, continuously, remains, what happened to the other directories? were they / are they on another partition?

were they deleted?

[spare heath]

insde other parts i guess

like my user etc

all that shit is in different subs

[arctic owl]

No.

[worn summit]

It shouldn't be

[arctic owl]

I think they have other subvolumes of these things randomly spread out on other partitions

[spare heath]

yeah

[worn summit]

Oh

[arctic owl]

so why didn't you say that earlier?

[spare heath]

i did ???

[arctic owl]

I asked you what happened to them

[spare heath]

i said there in different folders

[worn summit]

Try running mount -a then

[spare heath]

like 4 different times

right i did mount -a

[arctic owl]

you never gave me an answer

[arctic owl]

folders and subvolumes are different things

[spare heath]

well i already said ion know what im doing lmao

right so what now

[worn summit]

Does pacman -Q return a list of packages?

That should show if your /var subvolume/whatever is mounted properly

[worn summit]

From chroot

[spare heath]

oh

nope

doesnt return anything

no such file

[worn summit]

When you ran mount -a, was that in or outside of chroot?

[spare heath]

ill redo in chroot

[worn summit]

What does lsblk show?

[worn summit]

Do you know which partition etc is on?

Because your fstab would be in that

[spare heath]

no idea

i mounted out

gonna guess there?

[worn summit]

What's in /mnt/@/etc/?

[spare heath]

pacman.d

but thats what you guys added right?

rebooting

[arctic owl]

just randomly through everything "hey, lets reboot"

[spare heath]

pc was frozen ?

ts harddrive jus a ballache, fuck it just have to deal with the fact it aint gonna load again lmao

[arctic owl]

if you reinstall (I don't know if @worn summit agrees that that is maybe the most sensible way forward or not) follow the following process:
Back up all files and folders you want to an external device. This should mostly if not entirely be made up of things from your home subvolume.
Decide what FS you want to use (perhaps btrfs would be too advanced for you, maybe try ext4?)
If you decide on something like btrfs:
Decide what you want the subvolumes to be, and where you want them located, do so in a way that you find easy to remember
If you don't, decide if you want /home to be on a seperate partition or not (I wouldn't bother personally)
Then when you've decided all of that, that's when you would reinstall, according to the plan you lay out, including deciding what drives you want to have which partitions

[worn summit]

I mean it might be fixable, but you may just want to transfer your important data to another drive instead

If you reinstall I'd recommend going with a more normal partition layout instead of whatever this is

[spare heath]

id have to do that another day

its my birthday and ive spent the entire day trying to fix it

so just gonna give up for now

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