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Folks,

Trying to install on a laptop and I get a failure on my /home partition. as it boots I get:

FAILED: Failed to start on File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
See 'systemctl status "huge long file name" (I have no idea where this filename lives and a find -name startoffilename* does not find said file.)

DEPEND: Dependency failed for /home
DEPEND: Dependency failed for Local File System
And a couple more DEPENDs referencing this disk.

I don't really know what other information to give at this point. So would someone be able to tell me what information would track this down I will supply it.

Many thanks!

PS I'm trying to install Mageia 6 STA1 DVD from a USB stick.(I have no DVD drive on this laptop.)

Hmmmm reminds me of some similar message when i had messed up parttions on the stick and the disk...

I guess you get that message after grub?

Could you boot the machine on another system (i.e a "live" mageia USB stick or other (i like sysresccd.org)
and see what is in the /etc/fstab on the failed system?

I suggest you drop to runlevel 1, dismount /home, and run fsck on the partition that contains home.

Because this is a new install, you might want to run diagnostics on your hard drive to make sure it is OK, then reinstall.

jiml8 wrote:I suggest you drop to runlevel 1, dismount /home, and run fsck on the partition that contains home.

Because this is a new install, you might want to run diagnostics on your hard drive to make sure it is OK, then reinstall.

Jim, I was able to do that easily as the boot drops me to a command console when I entered the root password (and /home was never mounted).

It did show a superblock problem which was easily solved by doing this:

resize2fs /dev/sda6

It now boots. Huzzah!

Many thanks!