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Antharas

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Registered: 2015-08-25

Posts: 1

ERROR: device 'UUID=9e6...af" not found. Skipping fsck.

Hi Guys!
I've a problem with Arch, I've installed it on my external HDD through my desktop pc and it works fine, but when I boot the OS on my laptop this error appears:

 ERROR: device 'UUID=9e6...af' not found. Skipping fsck.
ERROR: Unable to find root device 'UUID=9e6...af'.
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
    Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs /]# 

Why?

Thanks for your Help!

RogerB

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Registered: 2015-08-21

Posts: 24

Re: ERROR: device 'UUID=9e6...af" not found. Skipping fsck.

I think you was made some mistake with your fstab. Your system cannot find partition with /root.

You should do this:
1. Start up with Live usb
2. Mount your system partitions as they should be ( /mnt /boot etc.)
3. Do this:

genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

4. Check your fstab file

If you will make everything alright then your Arch will alive.

PS: if you want see what was wrong you should cat your fstab before you will generate it again. They should be different.

Last edited by RogerB (2015-08-25 19:06:18)

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losko

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Registered: 2014-11-19

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Re: ERROR: device 'UUID=9e6...af" not found. Skipping fsck.

In your '/etc/fstab' the root partition is identifyied by a wrong UUID, something like this:

UUID=9e6...af    /    ext4    rw,noatime,nodiratime,data=ordered    0 1

You should edit your '/etc/fstab', booting from recovery media and then mounting that partition.
Change first field with label or device:

LABEL=yourlabel    /    ext4    ...

or

/dev/sdXX    /    ext4    ...

You should check the kernel line of your bootloader as well:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=9e6...af initrd=......

and change it (if needed) to:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sdXX initrd=......

or

linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=LABEL=mylabel initrd=......

The kernel line can be changed 'on the fly' (not permanently) at boot, usually pressing 'e' key'.

Last edited by losko (2015-08-25 19:40:07)

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Re: ERROR: device 'UUID=9e6...af" not found. Skipping fsck.

I'd guess a missing driver in the initramfs. Try booting with the fallback image as that should have more drivers, if that doesn't work you need to figure out which driver is needed (my guess would be disk controller) to get access to the disk.

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Mladia

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Registered: 2016-04-30

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Re: ERROR: device 'UUID=9e6...af" not found. Skipping fsck.

Hey, I am having the same error, but different outputs on fstab and can't mount right partitions for some reasons. I know I shouldn't bring back an old thread, but I would appreciate your help, because it seems the problem is not so common and there is not enough info that I could find, and I could really appreciate the help

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=212114

WorMzy

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Re: ERROR: device 'UUID=9e6...af" not found. Skipping fsck.

I know I shouldn't bring back an old thread

Then don't.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … mpty_posts

Closing.

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