[Bradford] Nearly working laptop

[Duncan Hughes]

Hi Mike,
Is this your Arch box?  Did you run genfstab multiple times?

Dunc.



> On 26 Mar 2019, at 13:41, Devo Too via Bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> With thanks to John Hudson and the author of this blog http://averagelinuxuser.com/a-step-by-step-arch-linux-installation-guide/ I now have a laptop which kind of works, a huge improvement upon where I was on Friday.
> 
> It stutters to boot and will only shut down when its power is shut off. On boot, it has problems with a UUID which it targets 130 seconds to commit and moves on when it fails, so a slow boot. It turns out that UUID is for the fourth and final partition, /dev/sda4 /home.
> 
> It goes into kernel panic on reboot or shutdown, so the power switch comes into play.
> 
> /etc/fstab has multiple identical entries for three of the four partitions. In turn:
> 
> /dev/sda1 /boot/efi 1 entry
> /dev/sda2	/   3 entries
> /dev/sda3 swap (none) 2 entries
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/home 2 entries.
> 
> the order they are listed in is / / efi home swap / home swap
> 
> The layout is
> # /dev/sdaX
> UUID ~blahblah~
> (blank line)
> # /dev etcetera
> 
> and the kernel panic happened at each shutdown or reboot. So I added a single # to each uncommented repeat and hit reboot. A blank screen appeared with a cursor flickering, top left hand corner. Power button, same cure as before.
> 
> Booting up again, the system is still looking for /home partition. I haven't added any ordinary user yet and there is no data in there. Would adding a user with ~/username/ help?
> 
> Any sysadmins or gifted amateurs out there to point me in the right direction, please? Is fstab the right place to look? If not, what else should I be doing?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mike
> 
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