Hello Everyone, As you all might know that my previous topics included conflicts b/w hdd and ssd, now after the previous topic, I disabled HDD named sda after suggestion of @ricklinux . But now device is not booting up and is showing that it failed to mount sda. How should I proceed?

[image] pebcak: You could use a Live usb, mount your system partition and edit /etc/fstab as root. Boot up your live usb Open a terminal Run lsblk to identify your system partition: /dev/sdxy sudo mount /dev/sdxy /mnt ## replace x and y with their actual values sudo nano /mnt/etc/fstab Remov…

I guess you would need remount your root as rw: mount -o remount,rw / Then nano /etc/fstab and the rest as per above.

What should I do here ? [20220808_212759] Do you mean that I should remove the lines which are for sda ?

Weren’t they the partitions on your HDD that you formatted? So they are not there anymore on the disk. Then you would need to remove those entries.

I removed them now, and system booted up. Thanks for your extreme help. Now I am back to my first issue which I had faced when I came here.

You are welcome! Please consider checking the solution box under this post >> Device not booting up after disabling the HDD - #9 by pebcak And enjoy your revived system :wink:

Now if I do this : [image] Not able to move/delete files from HDD Newbie Open a terminal. Run sudo mkdir /mnt/{sda1,sda2,sda5,sda6} -p Then, open /etc/fstab. sudo nano /etc/fstab at end this file, paste the following UUID=a86c5980-4773-4932-90ef-ad0a97610e83 /mnt/sda…

You can’t just copy and paste those commands. You would need to adapt it to the new partition scheme on your HDD (new UUIDs) and perhaps new mount points etc. The solution in principle should work now as well.

So should I adopt that solution with newer UUIDs then. Also, will there be same issues like this after that ?

[image] SearingSunrazeSmash: So should I adopt that solution with newer UUIDs then. Yes. And perhaps to new mountpoints if you make different ones. [image] SearingSunrazeSmash: Also, will there be same issues like this after that ? No, I can’t see why it should if done properly.

Device not booting up after disabling the HDD

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware

SearingSunrazeSmash August 8, 2022, 4:07pm 16

Yes I am aware of it. But something is remaining hence, I didn’t marked it up still. Though, your idea is solution. I am waiting for fixing in once and for all.

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