Device "UUID" Not found you are being dropped into an emergency shell

[winnie]

@jayfer2

Other posts talk about needing to add VMD because it might have intel RSD to my modules but in the emergency shell I can’t access any text editors and Sudo is also not found.

It needs to be done in manjaro-chroot, while booted in the live USB.

This is a known issue with Manjaro / Arch, while some other distros already implement their own fixes by including the proper modules by default, universally for all installations.

Hopefully, this is done as a patch for future Manjaro installers:

Installer needs to add vmd module to mkinitcpio - Testers Needed

I just installed Manjaro onto a new laptop that uses Intel VMD by default. The installer detects the drive and installs fine, but on first reboot it is unable to find the partition and fails to an emergency shell. Some googling came up with the solution: adding vmd to MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf andregenerate. Is this something the installer should/could do for the user if it detects VMD in use?

Here is another thread in which I go through the step-by-step with some more detail:

ERROR: device 'UUID=88a...7c' not found. Skipping fsck

That sounds like my friend’s laptop. Did you at any point disable it? Changing it now can destroy your existing data. Add vmd to your MODULES under /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and then rebuild the initcpio. You can do this via a live USB session, chroot into your root filesystem, apply the changes, then reboot. Under the live USB session. Mount the esp, boot, and root filesystems under /mnt. You might not have a separate boot partition, so it depends on your installation. Usually you’ll mount the r…