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External USB SSD disk fails to mount at boot
I have two external drives attached to my Ubuntu Server 22.04.3. My /etc/fstab includes, among other things, the following two lines for the two drives:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/d7dbea69-0332-4d12-b905-...
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EndeavourOS/Arch Linux broken after power off. NVMe drive not detected by any method
After a forced power off, my system looks broken.
The OS was installed in a BTRFS system.
Booting EndeavourOS normally will hang with:
“A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/…” (forever)
cat /...
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Wait for USB mount before starting NFS server on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (zero2w) with Raspbian?
I have Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (zero2w) with Raspbian x32 installed and attached USB SSD drive which main purpose is to act as a network (image) backup server for several other devices (all Raspberry Pis -...
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Moved /usr to another disk as it was getting too big but now my system won't boot?
Currently I have my arch install (pure arch + hyprland) installed so that my / (root) is on my NVME SSD (which has little space due to windows dual boot) but my /home directory is on my SSHD (hybrid ...
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How to turn a Linux system into dual boot
I have a computer with two storage devices in it. I want to have two Linux systems in it, and I want them to be based on the same installation. One will live in a ext4 filesystem and the other will ...
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Cannot mount nfs at boot but works manually "Network is unreachable" w/ systemd
Debian 10 box will not mount NFS share from /etc/fstab however executing mount -a mounts said share. I noticed a longer boot time.
# systemctl status home-user-weather-images.mount
● home-user-weather-...
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mounting command for sdcard never exit
My system is an embedded linux system buided with yocto kroghoth on an IMX6 based board ($uname -a : Linux tx6s-8035 4.13.0-karo-tx6+ #2 SMP Fri Apr 26 14:05:31 CEST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux). I have an ...
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mount overlayfs on “/” before systemd starts
I'm working on an embedded device with an arm cortex A9. The kernel version is 4.16.0 and is generated by buildroot 2018.05.
The storage memory is an mmc with several partition. U-boot reads the ...
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Linux mount NFS share
I want to run Linux on an embedded device (mips) which has some very hard restrictions:
only 16MB storage
no wired ethernet (only wifi)
Good news:
I have a working bootloader (u-boot)
I also have a ...
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Boot Linux to unbootable drive (move /bin, /usr/bin, /var, /opt to non-boot drive)/load Linux from a different drive
Setting:
a Supermicro motherboard that implements EFI bootorder incorrectly, overwriting it at every boot. efibootmgr changes only persist if I set bootnext, not if I set bootorder.
a PCIe-connected ...
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How do you mount a network drive automatically on boot in Windows 10?
I have a need to have a network drive mounted and available on a Windows 10 machine to a specific user automatically after the machine has booted up. This user will have services running, and these ...
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Corrupt Superblock in /dev/sda
I ran into grub rescue mode this morning and I tried to fix it with live USB, but after running lilo -M /dev/sda mbr when I boot with live usb again, I get these errors before booting successfully:
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Wait for a specific network to be up before mounting in /etc/fstab (multiple interfaces)
I want to mount a samba share from my NAS on /mnt/Media on boot via cifs.
I already added an entry to /etc/fstab (incl. _netdev option).
The connection to the NAS is a separate point to point ...
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Mount fails on boot
In fstab, I have 3 logical volumes being mounted, one for /, one for /home, and one for swap. On boot I see that / and /home are being mounted OK, then I see
"Remounting root filesystem in read-...
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Debian 8.9 / systemd : Removing crashed disk from boot
One of my hard drives just crashed on my home server (IO error), and after shutting it down, I can't boot it again. It gives me A start job is running for dev-disk-by [...], waits for 1m30 and then ...
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A start job is running for dev-disk-by -- BUT fstab is fine
I am setting up a new root partition on /dev/sda2 (newer Fedora 25)
I have done this before and had no problems in the past.
(If you realy need to know how see Fedora on New Root Partition
This time ...
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Remount of USB drive partition on /boot silently failing after umount
I set up an openSUSE 42.1 installation where the /boot partition is located on a USB flash drive, while everything else is using LVM volumes inside LUKS containers. So far everything seems to work ...
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Filesystem failing to mount on boot, but OK when mounted manually
I'm not sure when/why this started happening, but I have a RAID array entered in my /etc/fstab to mount on boot to /mnt/data. Up until today everything has been fine, and it's been that way for ...
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Shall I mount /boot partition and if yes, can I make it read-only
I've got a separate /boot partition on an SSD drive. Do I have to mount it at all and if yes, can I make it read-only?
Current fstab:
UUID=783b2uhe7-2a2780abfxd0 /boot ext4 ...
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Windows 7: Specify which (internal) drives to mount on startup
I am running a machine with Windows 7 and multiple internal hard drives/partitions on these drives - booting from one of these.
All of these drives/partitions are mounted on startup. Is there a way ...
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Installing Linux Mint, how to partition disc, mount points, boot flag?
I'm getting used to Linux a bit now, came to it as an XP refugee, and am still firmly a noob. I can google until I'm blue in the face, but I still don't know enough to understand what all the ...
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How can I run a script at boot time right when the disks are mounted?
Note: I'm not asking about running a service (or whatever) when booting is completed (I know how to do that).
Background
System boots from an SDCard, which has the full system on it. Attached to it ...
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How to make ISOLINUX loaded RAMDisk writeable?
I'm currently using ISOLINUX to create a bootable MS-DOS 6.22 image in the RAM.
This is working pretty well! I can stuff the folders CDROOT and isolinux in this setup and then create a new ISO with ...
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NFS mount causes boot delay
When booting my debian unstable linux box the process is delayed when it attempts to mount NFS partitions from another machine which is not switched on. The message displayed during boot is:
[*** ] ...
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How do I automatically (after boot) mount an USB disk for the general user read/write/execute
This question has been answered several times here, however I want the disks been mounted automatically after boot - with an entry in /etc/fstab
presently I have:
/dev/sdc1 /media/disk500 vfat ...
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OSX: Making sure Dropbox always starts after SD card is mounted?
I have a Macbook Pro with a relatively small SSD, so I use a 128GB MicroSD card in a nifty little adapter I plug flush into the side of the laptop for some extra storage. I have quite a large Dropbox,...
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PC won't let me skip disk check on drive that isn't needed to boot; how do I make it check the disk while running?
My computer has three non-removable volumes: a solid-state drive I use for booting and storing applications (C:), a much larger hard drive I use for storing the majority of my files (D:), and a two-...
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bootsect.exe /nt60 - No bootcode was successfully updated
I am trying to modify my 500GB usb harddrive so I can use it to mimic a DVD BOOT disk
I have formatted and created a primary partition on it using
cmd.exe
diskpart
list disk
select disk G
clean
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How to TRY automounting an external drive in Arch
So I'm trying to setup my own NAS using a Model B Raspberry PI running archlinuxarm and a 500GB external hardrive. In the past I used fstab to automount the drive on boot but I found out that when the ...
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mount partition on boot without fstab
I'm running Arch Linux on my Cubietruck, an ARM board with more features than a Raspberry PI. In order to do so I have moved the OS data from the internal storage to a SATA hard drive.
For some ...
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Disk partition errors after size change
I increased the disk size of one of my VM when it was running. After a reboot, I get the following error message (at boot time):
Mounting local filesystems...failed
Now the VM is only accessible ...
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HP Pavilion cannot boot Windows 8; C:\ drive is in computer:///
I was trying out Kali Linux for the first time on my Windows 8 machine using a LiveUSB, and I somehow made my computer unable to boot my original OS.
Looking in Computer, while using Kali, I see that ...
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Error mounting fstab
I have read many questions and answers in this and other forums before asking.
I watched videos on Youtube to learn how to deal with the fstab file too.
So forgive me for bringing back this doubt ...
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Having Trouble Mounting HFS Filesystem at Boot on Ubuntu Server
While the command "sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdc1 /home/external3" mounts the hfs file system on the /home/external3 directory on my Ubuntu server, I don't understand how to get it to mount at boot. ...
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How mount remote folder on boot from virtualmachine guest onto host at boot?
On boot I want the following two things to happen in order:
Start up a VirtualBox machine
Mount a folder (only after the VB machine is booted) on that VB guest onto the local host machine (via sshfs)
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Disable access to another Hard Drive Disks on Linux
I want to install some Linux disto into SSD disk, but I have another SSD with Windows, which I want to disable/unmount during running on Linux...
Is there are some configs where I can set 1st SSD (...
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Easier way to create floppy disk images?
I'm using Vyatta routers with KVM and want to attach a floppy drive with a config file for Vyatta when I boot the image. I'll be doing this over and over again, and as such am looking for an automated ...
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How to disable automount for specific, internal partitions on Windows 7?
I have an iMac on which I set up a Windows 7 on a separate partition of main main drive (an SSD) with Bootcamp. After installing the Bootcamp drivers, Windows is abled to read HFS+ file systems (even ...
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How to mount a network drive with authentication at startup on Mac OS X?
I need to keep a network drive mounted at all times. I figured out how to mount it at startup, but this requires a password that changes every 3 months.
How can I get around having to change the ...
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How to skip remote partition mount errors and continue booting?
I have an entry in my local machine's /etc/fstab to mount an NFS partition on a remote host:
remotehost:/ /media/blabla nfs4 defaults,nobootwait 0 0
When I try to boot the machine while the remote ...
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Can I make SYSLINUX load a root fs from an image file on an NTFS partition?
SYSLINUX allows me to boot from a FAT16 USB-stick by loading a kernel image and an initial ram-disk (initrd) image from there.
To get more space and a faster access, I can mount an NTFS partition ...
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Windows 8 create share on mounted ISO at startup
I have recently found someone who posted a registry setting that auto mounts an ISO on Windows 8 Pro at start-up.
This is great because it allows me to mount my Office install disc which I can then ...
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vertical green stripes on the screen
I had ubuntu installed on my laptop (Sony vaio vgn-fz470e) was working with it, suddenly it restarted and then screen showed colorful squares at first and vertical green stripes remained on the screen....
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How to boot into a root filesystem stored as partition image file on a bootable DVD?
I have created a bootable CD from a USB stick (built from Ubuntu core 12.04 according to this example) by
copying the files of the USB stick's boot partition (containing vmlinuz and initrd.img) into ...
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Ubuntu Drive Mount Order
I have two drives, a 120GB SSD and a 2TB HD. I set the BIOS to boot from the SSD, and an the Drives window of Ubuntu it tells me the SSD is SDB and the HD is SDA. I would expect the SSD to be SDA ...
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Boot from USB and run batch file
I'm trying to boot from USB and run a batch file that will mount the computer's main hard drive and will copy a file from the root directory into a specified directory on the computer's hard drive.
I ...
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mounting ext3 hard drive on boot in Fedora?
I have a 1TB ext4 formatted hard drive other than the one that Fedora has been installed. It is not mounted on boot time and after boot I need to mount it myself. I just click on file manager, it asks ...
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How do I get Windows 8 to mount a VHD at startup?
I have a VHD with a database on it, which I have attached to the database server, which wreaks havoc on the database server after a reboot and the VHD is no-longer mounted.
My searching for this has ...
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Is it possible to set the device containing a linux root filesystem to always be detected as a specific block device?
I have a bootable linux thumb drive meant to deploy linux OS images and I've been having problems with the thumb drive occasionally changing the /dev/sd device it mounts as, wreaking havoc with the ...
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unable to simultaneously mount hdd and its copy on OSX
Recently, I purchased an SSD and using dd copied my OSX HDD onto that SSD. I'm able to boot from both drives when they are installed in my Macbook Pro, separately. However, if both drives are in the ...
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