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aminepro

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Registered: 2025-01-31

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vconsole stops the sysyem from booting

https://jumpshare.com/s/IO0DcZ6Ho6jCUYAH6aVS

I'm sure that I have vconsole correctly configured

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: vconsole stops the sysyem from booting

The problem is the missing disk, not the vconsole setup.
From the install iso check "lsblk -f" and make sure the UUID there is actually correct.
Possibly https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=312403

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aminepro

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Registered: 2025-01-31

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Re: vconsole stops the sysyem from booting

that was the problem, I got uuids from fdisk -l -o uuid . I saw this in fdisk's man page, but it seems no one uses it in the internet (at least what google provides me with)

GerBra

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Registered: 2007-05-10

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Re: vconsole stops the sysyem from booting

I got uuids from fdisk -l -o uuid . I saw this in fdisk's man page

Your problem is that there a many "things" on Linux that you could reference with a "uuid" ;-)

From above fdisk output you get (correctly) the UUIDs for the **partition**
But your boot failed cause via /etc/fstab UUID requires the unique id for the **filesystem**. These are shown ex. with: lsblk -f

To understand better compare

fdisk -l -o +UUID

vs.

lsblk -f

The **partition** UUIDs for ex. could be used to create a filesystem on this unique identifier, regardless to which blockdevice name (/dev/sdXY) it currently belongs.
ex:

ls -l /dev/disk-by-partuuid/

(could be used as: mkfs.ext4 /dev/disk-by-partuuid/THE_PART_ID)

Instead:

ls -l dev/disk/by-uuid/

shows all **FILESYSTEM** UUIDs, needed ex. for mount UUID=what

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seth

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Re: vconsole stops the sysyem from booting

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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