[Bradford] Nearly working laptop

[Devo Too]

Hi Dunc,

I think only once, but as entries were not sticking, e.g. running mk and 
mount had to be double checked to ensure the command had been carried 
out, I may have done. Certainly I ran genfstab at least once when it 
failed to generate the file whislt still in archiso, pre-chrooting to 
the system.

Yes, new Arch installation on a brand new laptop. This midi tower also 
runs on Arch but this installation is five to six years old.

Question is whether to delete, or at least comment out, the extra 
entries. I can't see that they would be doing anything constructive and 
they may be the root of some of the problems?

Cheers,

Mike

On 26/03/2019 13:44, Duncan Hughes via Bradford wrote:
> 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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