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hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Boot is stuck after /etc/fstab edit

Hi,

I have edited /etc/fstab to add this line:

UUID=d4da2a9b-45ca-4abc-8380-82d005d2afa9 /media/sdcard ext4 defaults,noatime,discard 0 0

(related to my earlier post)

Now, the boot process begins normally but it is interrupted and displays this message:

You are in emergency mode.
(...)
Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
(...)
Press enter to continue.

It displays this endlessly each time I press enter.

Any suggestion to make my system usable again would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Edit.

Just after my post, I had the idea to boot on an USB key and to access my SSD to re-edit /etc/fstab in order to remove the bad line.
Now my system boots again normally.
But I still would like to have my SD card mounted for all users, not only for root.

Last edited by hchiper (2022-01-14 08:33)

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Q4OS machine: Samsung R519 - Pentium T4200 2.0 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 500 GB SSD