I just migrated from Pop!_OS after a botched update left me with some screen issues. I don’t like to keep old traces of a former OS so during installation I went with the erase disk option and let the installer do its own thing. Everything went smoothly but after I restarted when prompted I was greeted by ERROR: device "<UUID here>" not found. Skipping fsck. mount: /new_root: can't find UUID=<UUID here>
Then I got dropped into an emergency shell with tty: job control turned off. I was a little surprised since this is the first time I’ve run into errors because of leaving the installer to do its thing. I’ve tried installing Manjaro 8 different times already, including manually partitioning the SSD but still no go. I’ve looked up solutions online including disabling my RAID drive but still no go. Due to my research, I have a fair idea of what I need to post in order to receive help so they are below
Running cat /etc/fstab results in this,inxi gives me this output, sudo fdisk -l gives me this and finally lsblk gives me this text.
Please help me because I can’t boot my PC up to get any work done and currently sending this from the Manjaro LiveUSB! Oh yeah also for some reason no network devices detected and can only connect online using a cable hooked to my MiFi but I’m interested in successfully booting first.
Hello, first post here to try to help.
Let me see, you are trying to upgrade from PopOS to manjaro?
“only Linux distribution that enables pre-installed full-disk encryption out of the box”
An ecrypted partition will give to the installation a different blkid (that is my guess).
For what i see in your messages, you got an nvme drive with only Linux.
Easy way, backup your data and wipe the disk with the fully auto installation of manjaro.
The try way, get the block id of the partition (# blkid), put it at /etc/fstab
If it is an raid0. The raid creates at the bios a HEADER, needed to be exclude IN the BIOS, gparted or any other one Partition Manager can not undoit.
Enter your bios, create new raw partition.
# Configuration for encrypted block devices.
# See crypttab(5) for details.
# NOTE: Do not list your root (/) partition here, it must be set up
# beforehand by the initramfs (/etc/mkinitcpio.conf).
# <name> <device> <password> <options>
# home UUID=b8ad5c18-f445-495d-9095-c9ec4f9d2f37 /etc/mypassword1
# data1 /dev/sda3 /etc/mypassword2
# data2 /dev/sda5 /etc/cryptfs.key
# swap /dev/sdx4 /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=256
# vol /dev/sdb7 none
I don’t know if that’s very useful
I had Intel Optane which I reset in the BIOS so I don’t know if it’s still there. I’ve tried the vmd option before but not with chroot. How would I do this but with chroot please?
Your comment is similar to the thought process I went through. In order not to create any conflicts between the two distros, my general rule of thumb is to always fully erase disk the of the previous distro with the new one’s installer and that’s what I did with Pop!_OS.
I don’t know if there are any remains of Pop but checking my Boot Device Order it’s Manjaro and Windows only (Windows has always being there regardless of whether I have it installed or not and it just boots to the Linux installation anyway so that’s not a problem).
To clarify I have already done a full disk erase already before (like 8 times with Manjaro already) so I doubt there’s any Pop encryption stuff (unless…) and it installs on nvme0n1px (x being partition number). If there’s any more help you can provide or anything else I can provide please let me know!
So I took your suggestion and realised I’m supposed to mount THE partition with Manjaro root installed and so I took the following steps
sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p2
manjaro-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
edit the line
MODULES=(vmd)
and then did
mkinitcpio -P
I reboot and the output was something-something clean and now I am officially using Manjaro! I’ve rebooted a couple of times to make sure it’s a permanent fix and so far so good!
It have to be on the local disk via chroot if you are on a live session.
