Boot/SSD/HDD/Directories
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2025 3:28 pm
Hello. I want to try and be as clear as possible. I have been running MX23.5 Libretto Plasma on HDD (sda). Normally it boots in to a 5 second GRUB menu and if nothing pressed it loads up in to Plasma. I have concluded that Plasma was a bit much for the old hardware and manybloat/things I don't need. Some crashes, freeze ups and ran hot also was unable to adjust brightness etc. I was however able to use the night /day modes which helped. I also have a 254GB internal ssd (sdb) that I installed Fluxbox on to. I then was able to hold alt/option on start up to access boot loader. Without any external usb or drives plugged it I am shown 3 icon boxes , 2 have the text EFI under and 1 says Windows. I noted which EFI corresponded to Fluxbox or Plasma and it would load into either os distro. My gal is to boot straight into Fluxbox on SSD, and once all set up get rid of Plasma on the HDD and have the EFI boot, Root on SSD and home on HDD, not sure about Swap. Even if I could just use HDD for storage that's ok too. I couldnot figure out how to do it, so I just put all 4 partitions on SSD. ( would using LVM be possible? ). Ok, so ever since I switched over to Linux almost 2 years ago I have continued to fail at setting up the file system correctly, along with mounting causing permission issues, and a mess of files/folders etc. Attempting to fixI messed up, trying to assign UUID's to the correct partition within nano. Now after a reboot it will boot in to the GRUB menu or boot loader too but it won;t load in to the os. only a blank screen with a flashing curser. I am now using a live usb to boot and access my system but don't know how to fix. Please help! The following hopefully will help also. Thanks!
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System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-29-amd64 [6.1.123-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht nosplash grubsave video=1280x1024
Desktop: Fluxbox v: 1.3.7 info: tint2 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.5_fluxbox_x64
Libretto Jan 12 2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Apple product: iMac12,1 v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
type: 13 v: Mac-942B5BF58194151B serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-942B5BF58194151B serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple v: 87.0.0.0.0
date: 06/14/2019
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-2500S bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Sandy Bridge gen: core 2 level: v2
built: 2010-12 process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB
L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1678 high: 1868 min/max: 1600/3700 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1596 2: 1868 3: 1596 4: 1655 bogomips: 21550
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: disabled; RSB
filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
arch: Gen-6 code: Sandybridge process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports: active: none empty: VGA-1
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0102 class-ID: 0380
Device-2: AMD Whistler [Radeon HD 6730M/6770M/7690M XT] vendor: Apple driver: radeon v: kernel
alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale-2 code: Evergreen process: TSMC 32-40nm built: 2009-15 pcie:
gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, VGA-2
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6740 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Apple FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2:3
chip-ID: 05ac:850b class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: Apple iMac built: 2010 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 103
gamma: 1.2 size: 475x267mm (18.7x10.51") diag: 545mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080
min: 640x480
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.1.0-29-amd64 LLVM 15.0.6)
direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 1-1.3:6 chip-ID: 0dba:5001 class-ID: 0102
Device-2: AMD Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500/6600 / 6700M Series] vendor: Apple
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1
chip-ID: 1002:aa90 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Digidesign Avid Mbox Mini type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-29-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:16b4 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme
driver: ath9k v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 168c:0030 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Apple Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR HCI type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.1.1:7
chip-ID: 05ac:8215 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 1.2 lmp-v: 2.1
sub-v: 21d0 hci-v: 2.1 rev: 206
Info: acl-mtu: 1021:5 sco-mtu: 64:1 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio,
telephony
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.08 TiB used: 768.92 GiB (36.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST31000528AS size: 931.51 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: AP63
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Apple model: SSD TS256C size: 233.76 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0202 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide size: 28.67 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
ID-4: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 type: USB model: USB2.0 Flash Disk size: 1.86 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
ID-5: /dev/sdf maj-min: 8:80 type: USB vendor: Samsung model: PSSD T7 size: 931.51 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: GPT
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 1024 MiB used: 304.6 MiB (29.7%) priority: -2
file: /live/boot-dev/swap-file
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1200
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1920 libs: 934 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm pkgs: 0
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
Info:
Processes: 247 Uptime: 1d 5h 8m wakeups: 36 Memory: 3.8 GiB used: 3.31 GiB (87.0%) Init: SysVinit
v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI
""demo@mx1:~
$ sudo blkid
/dev/sdb4: LABEL="SWAP" UUID="9196cdaa-1c68-405e-b6d7-23ea79b7d286" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="712a1ccf-04"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="rootMX23" UUID="a43c2e63-e862-419e-87a1-1ddee75d1f3b" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="712a1ccf-02"
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="HOME" UUID="3e0a674d-d172-4de4-8ce9-19127cc5d564" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="712a1ccf-03"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL_FATBOOT="EFI-SYSTEM" LABEL="EFI-SYSTEM" UUID="C15A-9F24" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="712a1ccf-01"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sde1: LABEL_FATBOOT="2 GB USB" LABEL="2 GB USB" UUID="9248-2C04" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="3daff683-01"
/dev/sdc2: LABEL_FATBOOT="MX-UEFI" LABEL="MX-UEFI" UUID="5E77-4D91" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="3aa27cc8-02"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="MXFlux" UUID="69055cf4-43e9-4597-bc60-b57f64bbd0c1" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3aa27cc8-01"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="swapMX" UUID="86ac71ae-d508-4b8d-988f-218c1ac80e19" TYPE="swap" PARTLABEL="swap" PARTUUID="72f3d121-c97c-4e63-815c-b27edb209754"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="rootMX23" UUID="1d69a8c6-99ca-48ee-baf5-f68dea1eed07" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="root" PARTUUID="44917c74-f965-43c3-9ef2-6630f24099e2"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="homeMX" UUID="e9de0567-4f33-4a2c-8169-637110f82465" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="home" PARTUUID="870375bf-b784-4256-9472-f561b46d7d72"
/dev/sda1: LABEL_FATBOOT="EFI-SYSTEM" LABEL="EFI-SYSTEM" UUID="C63F-00DB" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="boot" PARTUUID="68a95713-2c26-47d7-bf57-5f26d51357e2"
/dev/sdc1 on /live/boot-dev type ext4 (rw,noatime)
/live/boot-dev/antiX/linuxfs on /live/linux type squashfs (ro,relatime,errors=continue)
tmpfs on /live/aufs-ram type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=3101696k,inode64)
overlay on / type overlay (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/live/linux,upperdir=/live/aufs-ram/upper,workdir=/live/aufs-ram/work)
tmpfs on /media type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=10240k,inode64)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,size=398628k,mode=755,inode64)
tmpfs on /live type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=102400k,mode=755,inode64)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,noatime,inode64)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1981776k,nr_inodes=495444,mode=755,inode64)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
overlay on /live/aufs type overlay (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/live/linux,upperdir=/live/aufs-ram/upper,workdir=/live/aufs-ram/work)
/dev/sdc1 on /root/Live-usb-storage type ext4 (rw,noatime)
/dev/sdc1 on /home/demo/Live-usb-storage type ext4 (rw,noatime)
tmpfs on /etc/live/config type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=102400k,mode=755,inode64)
tmpfs on /etc/live/bin type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=102400k,mode=755,inode64)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,relatime)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=797240k,inode64)
rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=12k,mode=755,inode64)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/run/cgmanager/agents/cgm-release-agent.systemd,name=systemd)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=398624k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 11 21:30 bin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 120 Mar 29 17:07 boot
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4100 Mar 29 10:12 dev
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1080 Mar 29 17:06 etc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60 Mar 29 10:11 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Mar 29 16:59 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Mar 29 16:59 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-29-amd64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 11 21:30 lib -> usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 11 21:30 lib64 -> usr/lib64
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 380 Mar 29 10:11 live
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 40 Mar 29 10:11 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Jan 7 14:21 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60 Jan 11 21:46 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 259 root root 0 Mar 29 10:11 proc
drwx------ 1 root root 100 Mar 29 10:11 root
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 1160 Mar 29 17:26 run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 11 21:30 sbin -> usr/sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Jan 7 14:21 srv
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Mar 29 10:11 sys
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 280 Mar 29 17:25 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 220 Jan 11 21:49 usr
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160 Jan 7 14:21 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Mar 29 16:59 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-32-amd64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Mar 29 16:59 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-29-amd64