I can boot only into emergency mode

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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I have a dual boot notebook with Win11 and EOS. I don’t know what exactly caused this, but after a reboot, I can only boot into emergency mode.

My journalctl messages are here:

I tried to re-install grub (with os-prober via the install USB stick), but this did not help.

Could anyone please give me a hint what to do next? Which information do you eventually need to help?

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What error are you getting at the point at which you are dropped into emergency mode?

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Hi Dalto
On the screen is no direct error message. The last line before is:
[ OK ] Mounted /boot/efi
You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type…

(and the rest of the text). I have to enter the root pwd and reboot.

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The journal says:

Dez 29 20:13:02 hppro systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Local File Systems.
Dez 29 20:13:02 hppro systemd[1]: local-fs.target: Job local-fs.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Dez 29 20:13:02 hppro systemd[1]: local-fs.target: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies.

That’s not really good. What have you done? :scream:

Have you chrooted successfully for this?
If you can chroot, check your filesystem (lsblk -f, fdisk -l, etc.).

I am sure it is something you did, just before rebooting (installing/uninstalling packages, changing system configuration, removing/installing hardware, etc.). You are the only one that knows… :person_shrugging: Think! Think! :joy_cat:

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Before os-prober, I successfully arch-chrooted. I can even access to the whole filesystem in emergency mode after logging in as root.

When thinking about what I have done before (well, after the last reboot, which was about 2 days before - I usually switch my system to standby mode), two things come into my mind:

  1. I installed some software, e.g. VirtualBox
  2. Before it went to emergency mode, I booted once Windows 11, then shut down normally, then wanted to boot EndeavourOS, but Windows booted again (I forgot to hold the F9 shortcut for the boot menu). I was a bit angry about Windows booting again and hard-switched the notebook off (held 5 seconds on the on-off-switch). Just after this came the emergency mode.

Is there any way to get the installed EndeavourOS again to work normally or do I have to make a backup and then a fresh install of the whole EOS again?

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I “solved” the problem by re-installing EndeavourOS on the same partition. It re-installed also the EFI partition and now, I can boot again. Most of the software could be re-installed and the backup gave me a lot of configurations back, so I did not need to re.configure all.
Next time, I will be more careful when booting - no more cold switch off while Windows boots. I hope this will avoid similar problems.
Thanks to all who tried to help.

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