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bricem13

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Registered: 2011-02-02

Posts: 42

[SOLVED] Fresh installation 2025.04.01 not booting

Hi all

Not my first installation but i am in big trouble now. I tested another distro and reverted back to arch. So I reinstalled everything from fresh iso.

At reboot, refind is booting but does not find the / partition and therefore i get an emergency shell.
Error is like "mount: /new_root: wrong fs type, bad option...." "Error: failed to mount '' on real root".

Fact is that if i generate fstab with Uuid or device name, the refind entry is either uuid or empty...

Not sure if the issue is refind or the installation.

On top i had w11 in parallel and accidentaly erase the content of the efi boot partition... Another issue to solve.

I pay cash my infidelity to arch

Last edited by bricem13 (2025-04-22 17:07:28)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh installation 2025.04.01 not booting

fstab has nothing to do with this. How, exactly, are you configuring refind?

bricem13

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Registered: 2011-02-02

Posts: 42

Re: [SOLVED] Fresh installation 2025.04.01 not booting

Well simply with refind-install (as always)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh installation 2025.04.01 not booting

So you're not configuring it at all. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/REFInd#Configuration

bricem13

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Registered: 2011-02-02

Posts: 42

Re: [SOLVED] Fresh installation 2025.04.01 not booting

pretty confusing, as I do not remember having to do something else than refind-install... anyway typing this from manjaro as quick and easy fix - let's see how it will turn out