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amosbarsinai

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Registered: 2025-10-01

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Arch drops me into an emergency shell after fresh install

Arch drops me into an emergency shell after fresh install.
I have an Asus Vivobook 14 Go, which seems to be a problem - Arch installs fine on my old laptop.
When I boot into GRUB -> Arch Linux, it says "Loading Linux linux..." (apparently hardcoded, I've tried editing the boot commands) for around 30 seconds and then just drops me into an emergency shell.
VMD doesn't seem to be the problem - adding it to MODULES doesn't solve the issue.
journalctl -xb doesn't work because journalctl isn't present, and dmesg doesn't give anything that could help.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Arch drops me into an emergency shell after fresh install

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Remove the quiet parameter and then post the error that actually leads up to the emergency shell.

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amosbarsinai

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Re: Arch drops me into an emergency shell after fresh install

I'll assume you meant the quiet flag in the GRUB boot commands...
It says it's "waiting 10 seconds for my device, /dev/disk/by-uuid/<my_main_disk_uuid>...", twice...
And then the same error:
ERROR: device <my_uuid> not found. Skipping fsck.
::mounting 'UUID=<my_uuid>' on real root
Error: Failed to mount <my uuid> on real root
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell

seth

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Re: Arch drops me into an emergency shell after fresh install

Ok, those UUIDs are really important, so take a picture.
Then boot some live distro (can be the install iso, can be grml) and check "lsblk -f", compare that with the UUID linux is waiting for.

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cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

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Re: Arch drops me into an emergency shell after fresh install

given using grub and you followed the official wiki this issue should not occur
so either you missed something - or mot followed the guide
so - how EXACTLY did you install arch?