Copying Arch Failure

[sturdy lark]

why would it want to find ur usb uuid

[severe bramble]

My hdd is the only thing plugged in, yet it tries only to find the unplugged usb

[tall vigil]

Ok

So

Is the USB bootable

[severe bramble]

Yes

[tall vigil]

Use it to boot

And then chroot into the system

.n chroot

[spice stump]

#18416 📣 1. Boot your PC into the ISO
2. Run:
lsblk -fs
-# this should show the available drives, partitions, their size and the FS on them. Use this to figure out what drive/partition your / is located on.
3. Run:
mount /dev/root_drive /mnt
-# replace /dev/root_drive with the path to your root partition you identified in step 2.
4. Run:
arch-chroot /mnt
-# this will let you puppeteer your system without actually booting it.
5. Run:
mount -a
-# this will try to mount everything configured in your systems fstab.

[severe bramble]

I’ll go do that thanks

[tall vigil]

And then

[tall vigil]

Well before u do the chroot part

You’d need to regen fstab so it knows to boot from it

[severe bramble]

I’ve already changed the uuid situation in fstab, do I have to rebuild it still? Mb I haven’t been on arch in forever

[sturdy lark]

also make sure the filesystem is correct

is u used vfat or ext4 for usb before and smt else for hhd

[tall vigil]

Also check ur kernel parameters

[severe bramble]

sda1 vfat
sda2 swap
sda3 ext4

[sturdy lark]

i guess the same if u copy pasted it

but just checking

[severe bramble]

just to be sure, which uuid’s are supposed to be in fstab

[sturdy lark]

all ideally

swap can be with swapon

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab#GPT_partition_UUIDs

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

follow these two

[sturdy lark]

ur swap should be the same size if ur ram is the same

its sometimes ram dependent but only really if u have a low amount or a high amount

[severe bramble]

Pretty sure i fixed fstab

[sturdy lark]

reminder to put a solved flag somewhere like a tag or at the front of the title

[severe bramble]

testing it now, hopefully it works this time

It’s over 😭
The partuuid=3331db78 is my usb that’s not plugged in

[sturdy lark]

if it is solved anyway

[sturdy lark]

oh brother

isnt this the same error

yk what

[severe bramble]

Somehow

[sturdy lark]

run blkid and find out what is the hhd and what is the usb

[severe bramble]

Yeah I have no clue, it keeps trying to boot into an unplugged usb

[sturdy lark]

lets give them labels

and add to fstab by label instead of uuid

[severe bramble]

Alr one sec, got to reboot

[sturdy lark]

then if the uuid changes or whatever itll still be fine

[sturdy lark]

all u need is the hhd

[slender gate]

That uuid is right here

Not removed

Last entry

[slender gate]

Did you try regening initramfs yet

Chroot and mkinitcpio -P

Did you check the the kernel cmdline?

And regening the grub conf?

.aw kernel parameters

[spice stump]

Kernel parameters

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

[slender gate]

/etc/default/grub if grub

[severe bramble]

i tried to boot back in and got a volume corrupt 💔

i forgot, that’s not repairable is it

[slender gate]

Also you can grep the systemfor the 3331db to find what files have it (won't look at the initrd because it's not a text file)

[slender gate]

From what

[severe bramble]

Couldn’t read it in time but I just saw one red line and the end said volume corrupt then black screen

[slender gate]

I'm going to sleep

The iso usb shouldn't break at least if you shut it down correctly

[severe bramble]

Yeah me too, can’t stand to look at another terminal

Atp im better off reinstalling arch, not like I have anything to lose there anyways

Thanks for the help y’all

[slender gate]

Shouldn't be that hard to fix

It's just files after all

[sturdy lark]

yes and just move your configs

[severe bramble]

All I had was arch functional, a browser, and a terrible hyprland rice