Mount: /new_root: can't find <device_uuid>

[Redman]

Hello everyone, I hope you’ll be able to help me.

When I boot on my fresh manjaro gnome installation I get this error during boot

ERROR: device ‘UUID=<device_uuid>’ not found. Skipping fsck mount: /new_root: can't find <device_uuid>. You are now being dropped into an emergency shell. sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

Prior to that I checked the existing forum posts on this topic.
I used the Live USB to chroot in the existing manjaro system, then I compare the UUID between the chrooted system /etc/fstab and compare it to the Live USB lsblk -fs and the UUIDs matches.

I also tried to reboot use fail-safe default options in boot, ensure it doesn’t use AHCI (which always throw ‘read errors’ whatever system or HDD/SSD I use) nor RAID but rather IDE mode.

I don’t have VMD on this bios nor boot protection for Windows.

I tried in the chrooted environment to do an update-grub which was successful, still having correct UUIDs, but not success in booting.

Checking the command sudo dmesg --level emerg,alert,crit,err,warn there’s some interesting lines in beginning related to overlayfs, impi_si, acpi, lpc_ich

[    0.145136] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
[    4.166832] r8169 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[    7.158655] overlayfs: null uuid detected in lower fs '/', falling back to xino=off,index=off,nfs_export=off.
[    8.842838] ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
[    8.961904] spl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    8.973716] znvpair: module license 'CDDL' taints kernel.
[    8.973719] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[    9.245646] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042F conflicts with OpRegion 0x000000000000042C-0x000000000000042D (\GP2C) (20210730/utaddress-204)
[    9.245675] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
[   16.952281] kauditd_printk_skb: 17 callbacks suppressed
[   22.025196] kauditd_printk_skb: 12 callbacks suppressed

[   60.653475] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  470.86  Tue Oct 26 21:55:45 UTC 2021
[   60.721349] kauditd_printk_skb: 19 callbacks suppressed
[   61.232720] resource sanity check: requesting [mem 0x000e0000-0x000fffff], which spans more than pnp 00:08 [mem 0x000e0000-0x000effff]
[   61.232727] caller _nv033181rm+0x2a/0x60 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
[   61.353853] resource sanity check: requesting [mem 0x000c0000-0x000fffff], which spans more than PCI Bus 0000:00 [mem 0x000c0000-0x000dffff window]
[   61.353856] caller _nv000722rm+0x1ad/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
[   65.800814] kauditd_printk_skb: 21 callbacks suppressed
[   68.589151] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[   81.041691] kauditd_printk_skb: 11 callbacks suppressed
[  126.024574] kauditd_printk_skb: 2 callbacks suppressed

Also there are no entries in the journal of the chrooted system.

[Aragorn]

See if this helps…

Dropped into emergency shell after manjaro i3 installation

The UUID of your root filesystem is incorrect. If you reformatted the partition formerly used by the Manjaro KDE installation, then your UUID will have changed. Boot up from the installer medium ─ CD/DVD or USB stick ─ in live mode. Open up a terminal window and issue the following commands… sudo su - manjaro-chroot -a If offered a choice, select the partition with Manjaro. Then run the following command… lsblk … and copy over the UUID of the Manjaro partition. …

[Redman]

I already did the grub part rewriting checking for UUIDs but not this part with mkinitcpio

mkinitcpio -P
sync
exit

I’m gonna try after and I’ll tell if it helps.

[Redman]

Yes, it worked thanks to the mkinitcpio -P and it booted instantly on Gnome so fast, thank you! You’re my savior!

P.S: It makes me wonder why it worked smoothly with the Live USB chroot using this command and not with the installer (I did 6 installs in a row before). I’m sure your help might be useful for the installer.