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evanc

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Registered: 2020-03-04

Posts: 23

Boot searching for partition that no longer exists?

Hello,

I had some issues with my swap partition on my arch install and I had to remake the swap partition and it now has a different uuid. I have made the changes in fstab and it boots fine but I want to stop the boot loader from searching for the old uuid device. How can I do that?

A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/etc....
Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by--uuid/etc...
[Depend] Dependency failed for /dev/disk/by-uuid/etc...
[Depend] Dependency failed for Swap

but output of my lsblk is all fine

Thanks

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,230

Re: Boot searching for partition that no longer exists?

Do you use a resume=  kernel parameter that still has the old UUID? And you might want to rebuild your kernel images with mkinitcpio -P

evanc

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Registered: 2020-03-04

Posts: 23

Re: Boot searching for partition that no longer exists?

I am pretty new to arch so this is my first time modifying any of the boot parameters so I am unfamiliar with the resume kernel parameter but I can try to rerun mkinitcpio.

evanc

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Registered: 2020-03-04

Posts: 23

Re: Boot searching for partition that no longer exists?

It looks like redoing mkinitcpio -P has fixed the issue. the boot is still a little jolty but the output of

cat /var/log/boot.log

doesn't show the issue anymore so I will consider it fixed. Thank you.