Device not booting up after disabling the HDD

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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  1. Boot up your live usb
  2. Open a terminal
  3. Run lsblk to identify your system partition: /dev/sdxy
  4. sudo mount /dev/sdxy /mnt ## replace x and y with their actual values
  5. sudo nano /mnt/etc/fstab
  6. Remove all the entries referring to the non-existent partitions
UUID=46994f1c-f1a8-4687-a5af-6ebe09e30798 /mnt/sda1 nofail      ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2 
UUID=77d462a0-1576-4eed-b18d-bbafea04c24a /mnt/sda2       ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=9c09fd9d-f36b-42b6-9ca5-bfeb6219d0e5 /mnt/sda5       ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=23c7fa5a-28fb-49e3-854a-638bfec7844c /mnt/sda6       ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2
  1. In turn, press Ctrl-O, Enter, Ctrl-X
  2. Reboot.
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