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oonebaddog

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Registered: 2022-04-15

Posts: 18

Weird inconsistency between Systemd-Boot and Refind

Heyyoo.

tl:dr; When I boot my laptop using Refind I get an error: "The root device is not configured to be mounted read-write! It may be fsck'd again later. .... mount /new_root: unknown filesystem type ntfs". But when I boot using Systemd-boot this doesnt appear.

I have a laptop with 2 nvme drives. Last weekend, I decided to go full-time Arch and so I wanted to swap my Arch install (1TB drive) with my Windows install (4TB drive). So I wiped both drives and reinstalled with Arch on 4TB, Windows on 1TB.  Admittedly, I didn't feel like doing the whole DIY thing, and I was a bit pressed for time installing Arch so I instead used the archinstall script, which defaults to systemd-boot. Once I had a bit more time and had a working setup, I decided to switch to refind, which is where my troubles start. I've run refind-install and booting into Windows works fine, but when I try booting into Arch I get the error message above.

Any help would be very appraciated!

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,726

Re: Weird inconsistency between Systemd-Boot and Refind

Configure refind to pass the correct root partition to the initramfs on the kernel command line.

Last edited by Scimmia (2024-08-17 23:05:22)