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somannak

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Registered: 2021-04-01

Posts: 14

can't access tty after motherboard replacement [SOLVED]

I had some issues with the motherboard and I had to replace it. due to some issue at the service centre, it took over two months to get it fixed. I am using a Dell Inspiron 7591. I put back the same old SSD and when I try to boot into the computer, I see the bootloader menu to select Arch from the list but when I am past that I get the following error,

I used Google Lens image to text to copy and paste the error message down here so some characters might be misplaced.

[ 0.091416] x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS.
running early hook [udev]
Starting systemd-udevd version 255.3-1-arch
:: running hook [udev]
Triggering uevents...
:: running hook [keymap]
:: Loading keymap...done.
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-partuuid/33ccfe6d-b28a-42fd-8cc3-3157be3e9991 Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-partuuid/33ccfe6d-b28a-42fd-8cc3-3157be3e9991
ERROR: device 'PARTUUID=33ccfe6d-b28a-42fd-8cc3-3157be3e9991' not found. Skipping fsck. :
:: mounting 'PARTUUID=33ccfe6d-b28a-42fd-8cc3-3157be3e9991 on real root nount: /new_root: can't find PARTUUID=33ccfe6d-b28a-42fd-8cc3-3157be3e9991.
ERROR: Failed to mount 'PARTUUID=33ccfe6d-b28a-42fd-8cc3-3157be3e9991' on real root
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell. 
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
[rootfs ~]#

Based on a google search I tried following the steps and trying to fix it but for all the commands I get

sh: command: not found

I got command not found error for mdev, pacman, mkinitcpio, lsblk, poweroff, reboot and most other commands that I have tried

this is what I have inside /dev directory

• AUTOFS

• autofs

• bus/

• char/

• console

• core

• cpu/

• cpu_dma_latency

• dma_heap/

• dri/

• fb0

• fd/

• full

• gpiochip0

• hidraw0...3

• hpet

• hwrmg

• input/

• kmsg

• mem

• null

• nvram

• port

• ptmx

• random

• rtc

• rtc0

• snapshot

• stderr

• stdin

• stdout

• tpm0

• tpmrm0

• tty

• tty0...63

• ttyS0...31

• udmabuf

• urandom

• usb/

• userfaultfd

• vcs

• vcs1

• vcsa

• vcsa1

• vcsu

• vcsu1

• vga_arbiter

• zero

cat /dev/console

doesn't return anything, it's just an empty screen
how do I fix this?

Last edited by somannak (2024-05-18 17:54:16)

somannak

Member

Registered: 2021-04-01

Posts: 14

Re: can't access tty after motherboard replacement [SOLVED]

changing the BIOS setting to AHCI helped me fix the  issue

Link to StackOverflow Post for the solution