Unable to boot from SSD after install

BugattiBrandon · 06-24-2019, 03:11 PM

After installing 64 bit Mint MATE from live CD I am getting the error

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Gave up waiting for root file system device. ALERT! UUID=... does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

Also, when I try to update the drivers in the live CD I get the message E:The repository 'cdrom://Linux Mint 19.1_Tessa_-Release amd64 20181217 bionic Release' does not have a release file.
I installed Mint on the same SSD as Windows.

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sudo blkid

gives me

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/dev/sda1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="5AC6443BC64419A1" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="a9454b34-01"
/dev/sda2: UUID="5E504E0F504DEE79" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="a9454b34-02"
/dev/sda3: UUID="86E0953EE0953581" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="a9454b34-03"
/dev/sda5: UUID="936498c2-2090-45f0-90b9-7b1b54ab5e63" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="a9454b34-05"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="UUI" UUID="0FF8-351E" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="89140143-01"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sr0: UUID="2019-03-27-16-02-16-00" LABEL="Linux Lite 4.4" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="6d08d430" PTTYPE="dos"

Specs:
i7 with intel hd 4000
16GB ram
1TB SSD: 120GB for Linux

BW-userx · 06-25-2019, 08:57 AM

boot your dvd/cd/usb stick live linux, open two terminals, and go root, in one at least.
in the 1st terminal mount your pc hdd root partition.
X= device
x= number of partition

Code:

#mount /dev/sdXx /mnt
#nano /mnt/etc/fstab

find your UUID for whatever one if giving you grief. in your second terminal.

Code:

#blkid

to get your actual UUID's then find the one you need and replace it in your fstab, save file, reboot.
Hard Drives UUIDS

Code:

~ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="data1" UUID="2d6a4d00-106e-4402-91c4-329a1bbcee85" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="28da7fc5-01"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="ntfs1" UUID="98B63A6AB63A48D0" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="28da7fc5-02"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="E6F21C5AF21C30F3" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="3a883dd5-01"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="8AA21C9AA21C8D37" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="3a883dd5-02"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="a710c844-8ab8-43a1-8231-ebcaa2191061" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3a883dd5-05"
/dev/sdb6: UUID="52e005fd-dac3-4235-96ce-63339a35386b" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3a883dd5-06"
/dev/sdb7: UUID="c42aa97b-1daf-4694-97ee-068737cb1e53" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3a883dd5-07"
/dev/sdb8: UUID="275e8ce5-486f-426a-9595-bd36134f8346" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3a883dd5-08"
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL="SDCard64GB" UUID="992d2614-392b-4a75-9221-b0de218f33bd" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="d09b8eb7-01"

your Linux system file fstab, should look something like this.

Code:

~ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system>             <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
UUID=2d6a4d00-106e-4402-91c4-329a1bbcee85 /media/data1   ext4    defaults,noatime,discard 0 2
UUID=98B63A6AB63A48D0                     /media/ntfs1   ntfs    defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=c42aa97b-1daf-4694-97ee-068737cb1e53 /              ext4    defaults,noatime,discard 0 1
UUID=275e8ce5-486f-426a-9595-bd36134f8346 /home          ext4    defaults,noatime,discard 0 2
tmpfs                                     /tmp           tmpfs   defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

you just need to make sure they match.

colorpurple21859 · 06-25-2019, 09:01 AM

what is the uuid in your /etc/fstab for / and the root=uuid= on the Linux line of the grub menu entry for mint compared to the uuid error your getting

BugattiBrandon · 06-25-2019, 10:10 AM

This is what I get in the Linux system file fstab. The UUID matches blkid UUID, but it has "errors=remoun$" after the UUID.

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colorpurple21859 · 06-25-2019, 10:39 AM

how does this from sudo blkid

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/dev/sda5: UUID="0905d77b-47b8-45e0-8fe6-2a9c9c7f41ff

match the uuid number that is in the screen shot of your fstab?

BugattiBrandon · 06-25-2019, 11:17 AM

Sorry, that was the UUID for the old install of Mint. The UUID's do match, I forgot to change it in the post. I'll edit the UUID above.