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Nico371

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Registered: 2022-06-07

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[SOLVED] Arch no longer boots after attempting Win 10 install

I've been using Arch for around 6 months but decided to try and dual boot with Windows 10. I had a partition made from those 6 months ago but when trying to install Windows, I got the error message "Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation". So I thought maybe the partition format wasn't correct so I tried to boot back into Arch to format it correctly. Booted up GRUB, loaded Arch and was greeted with:
"Starting version 251.2-1-arch"
"/dev/nvme0n1p5: clean, 186369/3972672 files, 3563820/15859712 blocks"
Screen flickered 3 times then after a minute:
"[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/E4281FE2281FB292"
"[DEPEND] Dependency failed for /win10"
"[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Local File Systems"
"You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs, 'systemctl reboot' to reboot, 'systemctl default' or 'exit' to boot into default mode"
"Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D to continue):"

Typing in journalctl -xb spits out 1673 lines of which I have no idea what I'm looking for, nor what is helpful. And if I could copy and paste them I would, but I'm typing this on my phone, since I don't have a computer at the moment.

How can I get Arch linux booting? (Most important)
How would I then go on to install Windows, and add it to GRUB's menu? (least important since I'm fairly certain there's a wiki page for that)

Last edited by Nico371 (2022-06-14 19:05:51)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Arch no longer boots after attempting Win 10 install

Edit /etc/fstab and correct the /win10 line. Looks like the partition has been re-formatted, which changes the UUID.

EDIT: might be sensible to add the nofail option in case this happens again.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2022-06-14 17:53:05)

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Nico371

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Registered: 2022-06-07

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Arch no longer boots after attempting Win 10 install

That was it, I had redone genfstab but forgot to erase the previous one, leaving 2 sets of them on the same file. Booting fine now, thanks!