boot error

[bcreighton]

How do I do that? Not really familiar with fstab.

Thanks.

[DukeComposed]

How do I do that? Not really familiar with fstab.

"man fstab" will be useful here. And since you've already posted your QSI, you know that you have a few partitions to be aware of:

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Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 27.94 GiB size: 27.33 GiB (97.83%) used: 15.98 GiB (58.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 903.32 GiB size: 888.07 GiB (98.31%) used: 678.81 GiB (76.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3

Each of these partitions needs its own entry in /etc/fstab. "/" needs to point to /dev/sda2. "/boot/efi" needs to point to /dev/sda1. And so forth.

In short, every mountpoint (/, /home, /boot/efi) needs a line that pairs it to its own unique /dev/something partition.

[dolphin_oracle]

post output of

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cat /etc/fstab
sudo blkid

[jj 5117]

You can try to avoid hard reboots when you lock-up by using {Fn+F1-F4} for a terminal, and then, logout, exit, or shutdown -r or -h now. There are a few other tricks for that, too. REISUB is one of them. (I learned that recently here, on this great forum.)

[bcreighton]

Sorry for the delay, life interruptions.

ok, this is what i have in my etc/fstab. As nearly as I can determine, there is an entry for each partition?

#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=5E04-1863 /boot/efi vfat noatime,dmask=0002,fmask=0113 0 0

#Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=611a97a7-33e9-4c26-93da-bdce9c0b1e39 / ext4 noatime 1 1

#Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=72372e9f-feec-4830-9c96-f3c0ebe06a45 /home ext4 noatime 1 0
/swap/swap swap swap defaults 0 0

Thanks.

[jj 5117]

Oh, oops, Hi @bcreighton,

If you haven't figured out my mistake yet, my above "help" should have read {Ctl+Alt+F1-F4}. Sorry 'bout that.

[fehlix]

Sorry for the delay, life interruptions.

ok, this is what i have in my etc/fstab. As nearly as I can determine, there is an entry for each partition?

#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=5E04-1863 /boot/efi vfat noatime,dmask=0002,fmask=0113 0 0

#Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=611a97a7-33e9-4c26-93da-bdce9c0b1e39 / ext4 noatime 1 1

#Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=72372e9f-feec-4830-9c96-f3c0ebe06a45 /home ext4 noatime 1 0
/swap/swap swap swap defaults 0 0

Thanks.

The fstab looks good. So is your boot error now fixed?
If not, may be good to let us know what those UUID relates to, eithe one of those (or both)

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sudo blkid

or

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sudo lsblk -f

[bcreighton]

No, I wish.

Here are the results of running lsblk

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 /dev/sda1: LABEL_FATBOOT="EFI-SYSTEM" LABEL="EFI-SYSTEM" UUID="5E04-1863" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="7edbeb11-86ab-4f08-a7a4-76e3f1dc7387"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="rootMX23" UUID="611a97a7-33e9-4c26-93da-bdce9c0b1e39" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="5b75caf0-ef20-45fc-9fd4-c6750139e012"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="homeMX" UUID="72372e9f-feec-4830-9c96-f3c0ebe06a45" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="0eca8624-1efd-4135-af70-353c7f5458e1"

so SDA1 EFI
SDA2 Operating System?
SDA3 File system?

[bcreighton]

No more ideas? : )

[fehlix]

Does the MX liveUSB/liveSystem boot normally?
Have you tried al from LiveSystem runnin Gparted -> right click on the partions -> check, which does fscheck and a bit more.
Would it boot from LiveUSB Booet menu -> Boot Rescue Menu"-> search for GRUB loader/menus?