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Kestral

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Registered: 2017-06-10

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Droped into an emergency shell upon boot

so I just went through an install, and upon first reboot, it says it cant mount 'PARTUUID=*partition uuid*'  I assume I used the wrong partition, or there was a typo, but I cannot shutdown with a command and I don't think I have bootctl setup to boot from a usb drive.

Last edited by Kestral (2017-06-10 19:11:14)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Droped into an emergency shell upon boot

You don't need bootctl/systemd-boot to boot into a USB drive, this is depending on your firmware/UEFI. How did you do your install in the first place, if you don't know how to boot into a live session?

Mod note: Not an installation issue moving to NC

Last edited by V1del (2017-06-10 19:16:34)

Kestral

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Registered: 2017-06-10

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Re: Droped into an emergency shell upon boot

You don't need bootctl/systemd-boot to boot into a USB drive, this is depending on your firmware/UEFI

Mod note: Not an installation issue moving to NC

thank you for the clarification, but I'm not sure how to proceed. is it safe to force a shutdown?

V1del

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Re: Droped into an emergency shell upon boot

since you aren't accessing your drives anyway, probably., though I'm fairly certain the recovery shell does allow reboot and similar commands.

Please try to show some initiative before posting further questions, we haven't even gotten to an arch problem yet and you are asking very trivial questions, don't become a help vampire

Last edited by V1del (2017-06-10 19:27:28)

Kestral

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Registered: 2017-06-10

Posts: 4

Re: Droped into an emergency shell upon boot

You don't need bootctl/systemd-boot to boot into a USB drive, this is depending on your firmware/UEFI. How did you do your install in the first place, if you don't know how to boot into a live session?

Mod note: Not an installation issue moving to NC

To answer your question about the live session, after setting up bootctl, usb's no longer have priority. I have to change boot order manually.