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jbreese321

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Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 50

Unable to boot after backup and restore [SOLVED]

breezyboy1: I recently took a backup of my root and home directory and I deleted the existing ext4 parition and switched to xfs. I am being dropped  to a emergency shell, and a little lost on what to do. The error message is as follows:

<code>ERROR: device 'UUID=b3b1db16-d789-4448-a2a1-e9ce5262f9b0' not found. Skipping fsck.
mount: /new_root: can't find UUID=b3b1db16-d789-4448-a2a1-e9ce5262f9b0.
ERROR: Failed to mount 'UUID=b3b1db16-d789-4448-a2a1-e9ce5262f9b0' on real root You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off.
</code>

Steps that I have taken. Updated blkid of / and /home, ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg, and ran mkinitcpio -p linux-zen. I am unsure of where to update the new UUID for mkintcpio. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Last edited by jbreese321 (2025-03-16 14:44:47)

jbreese321

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Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 50

Re: Unable to boot after backup and restore [SOLVED]

I spoke with some people on IRC. Turns out I forgot to mount my boot partition when running mkinitcpio -p linux-zen. I put xfs in the initramfs, reinstalled linux-zen, and was able to boot into my system.