Entirely unable to read many of the disks

KylieGS · 2018-03-22 16:59:43

My (working fine until now) boot is not working at all, seemingly due to being unable to read the disks https://imgur.com/a/jwTJr (at this point nothing will happen ).

I cannot boot, GRUB and the other OS on the same disk work fine. When I try to boot I get the error above

This is a multibooted with Windows,

I can't lsblk (or anything else) but I can remember that the partition structure is:
-disk0: (Solid State)
-- /boot/ (ESP with GRUB)
-- SWAP
-- /
-- /home/
-- [Windows partition]
-disk1: (shared with Windows, non-vital) (Spinning)
-- /mount/Programs/
-- /mount/Data/

All connected over SATA

My recovery live disk has failed (in a hardware sense) so slow responses is because I'm trying to make a new one on my spare laptop)

Last edited by KylieGS (2018-03-22 18:09:22)

ewaller · 2018-03-22 17:10:49

You have told us nothing about your system, the type of disks, how they are partitioned, the file system types, etc...
Does it boot? Logs? Output of lsblk ?

Trilby · 2018-03-22 17:13:23

What's causing what? You've provided less than nothing to go on here. ~~It's less than nothing as what you have provided is plagued with mismatched parentheses with no clear purpose and some random stray characters inserted in the middle of a wanna-be sentence.~~

Read these then try again:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

(edit: thanks, the OP is now much improved. More information will be needed, but this is a fair start now.)

Last edited by Trilby (2018-03-22 18:18:10)

KylieGS · 2018-03-22 17:51:25

Trilby wrote:

What's causing what? You've provided less than nothing to go on here. It's less than nothing as what you have provided is plagued with mismatched parentheses with no clear purpose and some random stray characters inserted in the middle of a wanna-be sentence.
Read these then try again:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

Sorry, I can see how bad the original was

KylieGS · 2018-03-22 17:52:20

ewaller wrote:

You have told us nothing about your system, the type of disks, how they are partitioned, the file system types, etc...
Does it boot? Logs? Output of lsblk ?

No booting at all, I'm sorting a live disk at the moment, which logs should I look for?

ewaller · 2018-03-22 18:01:53

Let us start with the output of lsblk
And you *must* tell us about the drives. Spinning or SSD? Interface : SATA? USB? Filesystems: EXT4? NTFS?

KylieGS · 2018-03-22 18:13:43

ewaller wrote:

Let us start with the output of lsblk
And you *must* tell us about the drives. Spinning or SSD? Interface : SATA? USB? Filesystems: EXT4? NTFS?

Answered in my main body (incase someone else shows up). The disks themselves work fine, both GRUB and Windows are on the same disk and have no problems with them

ewaller · 2018-03-22 18:20:18

Thanks. When you get your recovery disk working, see if you can mount the partitions and, hopefully, see the files in the file systems.

KylieGS · 2018-03-23 02:36:07

ewaller wrote:

Thanks. When you get your recovery disk working, see if you can mount the partitions and, hopefully, see the files in the file systems.

Thanks for coming back after the wildfire that was my first post

Recovery disk up and running, here are photos (I can transcribe if it's really needed) of any outputs I think are relevent.

https://imgur.com/a/VcuWk

Docbroke · 2018-03-23 04:37:58

You can upload command output to a pastebin client, instead of taking photos. For example

<cmd> | curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw/

ewaller · 2018-03-23 05:34:35

That is a bunch of storage. I assume that you boot from sde1 and root is sde3. swap is sde2. Where does home live? What are the other drives used for?
In the recovery disk, can you mount sde1 on /mnt and see the files in /mnt? How about sde3?

I note that the UUIDs in the photo in post #1 don't seem to agree with those in post #9. Can you check your boot loader and /etc/fstab double check the UUIDs against those in your recovery disk?

KylieGS · 2018-03-23 13:09:52

Fixed! (Not solved as j still have no idea what the issue was )

Upgraded my system using my recovery disk, seemed to sort itself out.

I checked the UUIDs first, they were all correct. I think what happenes was a broken Linux upgrade and this was my first restart since.

Arch Linux

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Entirely unable to read many of the disks

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