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irarch

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Registered: 2024-02-02

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Occasional "failed to mount on real root"

Sometimes when my system boots I get an error about the drive not being able to mount. Other times it boots fine. Any ideas why this might be?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Occasional "failed to mount on real root"

Most likely not using persistent names in your fstab: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Persis … ice_naming

If that doesn't sufficiently explain it, post said fstab as well as

lsblk -f
fdisk -l

irarch

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Re: Occasional "failed to mount on real root"

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Last edited by irarch (2024-09-17 11:27:59)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Occasional "failed to mount on real root"

That error comes from the initramfs, so check your bootloader config, that's where you may not be using persistent names.

irarch

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Re: Occasional "failed to mount on real root"

I think I see what you mean Scimmia. I'll try that. Thank you.