General discussion • Will not boot in Bookworm after editing /etc/fstab

Hi,

I have a Pi5 with a NVME (Pimoroni) drive, this has been booting and working fine.

Today, I added a 1TB SATA SSD via USB3 to the system purely for storage as an extra drive, I put in and partitioned it with gparted to a single ext4 1tb partition.

I now wanted to have this drive mount at boot, so I....
sudo mkdir /media/usb
got the drive UUID from sudo blkid
added the details to /etc/fstab
...This is an example
PARTUUID="b951dfde-01" /media/usb ntfs defaults,umask=000 0 0

And then reboot....
Now It keeps failing to boot

I have tried holding down shift and then I can see it's trying to boot via NVME and then fails and I can see that it is having trouble with
Failed to mount media-Library.mount - /media/Library appearing in the POST report in RED

and ending up with
You are in emergency mode. After logging in type blah blah blah"
"Cannot open access to console, the root is locked"
"Press enter to continue"

Pressing enter just repeats everything.


Is there a way to get around this error, maybe somehow editing the FSTAB file remotely to remove what I put in

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by SniffTheGLove — Sat Dec 28, 2024 7:00 pm

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