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ban-ironic-ohms

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Registered: 2022-12-08

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] Boot Failure, [FAILED] Failed to mount /boot

I recently re-installed arch, and not cannot boot back in when I restart. I followed the install guide, and have done so several times, so I doubt I made a mistake in this step.
On restarting I get the error [FAILED] Failed to mount /boot
I have seen and tried several other posts with the same error to no avail.
Info:
- First, entering the emergency mode, I am able to see files in the /boot folder
- Other answers said to

pacman -S linux

which I have tried from both emergency mode and from a live arch install medium.
- Booting the /boot device with

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot

gives the error

mount: /boot: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

- I am able to run the mount command from above in the live install system. I also tried mounting both /boot and root partitions in live install system, then regenerating fstab (didn't change anything), then rebooting

Last edited by ban-ironic-ohms (2023-02-27 06:05:58)

ban-ironic-ohms

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Registered: 2022-12-08

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Boot Failure, [FAILED] Failed to mount /boot

Not marking as closed yet as I am yet to fully test it, but it appears that booting into emergency mode and rolling back the kernel to 6.1.11 fixed the issue.

philo

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Registered: 2015-01-26

Posts: 275

Re: [SOLVED] Boot Failure, [FAILED] Failed to mount /boot

You can mark your thread as [SOLVED] but only a moderator can mark it as [Closed], which is irrelevant here anyway.
You may remove [FAILED] from the title , which is confusing.

Last edited by philo (2023-02-27 11:08:41)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Boot Failure, [FAILED] Failed to mount /boot

The general logistics here suggest you didn't have /boot mounted when running the kernel update, so you never updated the initramfs and were thus loading a kernel that didn't have it's modules. Your /boot partition needs to be mounted before a kernel update as that's where the updated images are written to.