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Kostov

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Registered: 2024-04-23

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] System disk not appearing after restoring via Timeshift

Hello,

I decided to reinstall Arch in order to combine my / and /home partitions.

I used Timeshift to make a system snapshot before reinstalling Arch. I've only kept intact /etc/fstab from the fresh install in order to preserve disk UUIDs.

After restoring the snapshot within the new Arch install and booting, this appears:

:: running early hook [udev]
Starting systemd-udevd version 255.4-2-arch
:: running hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...
:: running hook [keymap]
:: Loading keymap... done.
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-partuuid/9d382f37-4c02-4d3a-ba21-c244eb1feb24 ...
[    6.310451] usb 3-1: device descriptor read/all, error -110
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-partuuid/9d382f37-4c02-4d3a-ba21-c244eb1feb24 ...
ERROR: device 'PARTUUID=9d382f37-4c02-4d3a-ba21-c244eb1feb24' not found. Skipping fsck.
:: mounting 'PARTUUID=9d382f37-4c02-4d3a-ba21-c244eb1feb24' on real root
mount: /newroot: can't find PARTUUID=9d382f37-4c02-4d3a-ba21-c244eb1feb24.
ERROR: Failed to mount 'PARTUUID=9d382f37-4c02-4d3a-ba21-c244eb1feb24' on real root
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

• In addition to the standard kernel, this appears on fallback and LTS.

• In Timeshift, I made sure to check the option to regenerate initramfs.

• I've used chroot + mkinitcpio -P. The error remains.

Help is appreciated.

Last edited by Kostov (2024-04-23 15:51:09)

Kostov

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Registered: 2024-04-23

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] System disk not appearing after restoring via Timeshift

Solved. I replaced the /boot directory in the snapshot with the one from the fresh Arch install (and /etc/fstab, as mentioned in the original post). For some reason, Timeshift wouldn't let me just preserve the Arch /boot, so I had to tamper with the snapshot.

Last edited by Kostov (2024-04-23 15:51:23)