Mageia 5 will not start [SOLVED]

[RoyD]

Hi All, I am running Mageia 5 KDE. I decided I required the extra hard drive in my PC so I removed it from the case.Once I rebooted the system went to emergency mode. I didn't go any further down here. I rebooted with a Magei5a live cd and looked at at the hardware under the control panel and found the drive that normally is the working drive has the type of drive eg /, swap, /home not filled in. I decided I would change them to the correct type. The system asked if I want to hide or move , not knowing what I should do I backed out. Please help Roy

[doktor5000]

Please post the contents of /etc/fstab and the output as root of

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lsblk -f

[isadora]

Hi Doktor
thank you for all your help
As I had to type this I did not copy all eg the xxxs
the usrmay16 is the drive I removed.
This is one time I wish I was not in such a hurry in removing a drive
Many thanks Roy

fstab

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# entry for /dev/sda1
uuid=08xxxxxxxxxxxxxxe41 /ext4 relative,acl 1 1
#entry for /dev/sdc1
uuid=8exxxxxxxxxxxxxx42b /backup ext4 defaults 1 2
#entry for /dev/sda6
uuid=61xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx6eb /home ext4 realtime 1 2
#entry for /dev/sdd1
uuid=3f7xxxxxx57 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=000,ro,nofail 0,0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
#entry for sdb6
uuid=3fxxxxxxxxxxxx815 /usrmay16 ext4 defaults  1 2
#entry for /dev/sda5
uuid=2dbxxxe67 swap  swap defaults 0 0

lsblk -f
--sda ext4                  08xxxxxxx41/run/media/live/0811xxxxxxxxxxxx
--sda2
--sda5 swap          2dbxxxxxxxx67
--sda6 ext4          61xxxxxxxxx6eb /run/media/live/611xxxxxxxxx
sr0 iso9660 Mageia-5-kde4-live dvd
loop0 squashfs

[doktor5000]

You don't need to type that, just redirect it to some file and later post the contents of that file here, as the xxx's are the important part and there's shouldn't be typos there. Try again with

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lsblk -f > /tmp/lsblk.log

[RoyD]

Hi Doktor
I had to add the drive that is having a problem into another Mageia PC so I could get the data. Hopefully to do it this way does not cause a problem.
cheers Roy

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NAME   FSTYPE LABEL UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 ext4         e499ebfe-ff35-4113-aa36-8ad727a39f36 /
├─sda2                                                   
├─sda5 swap         84a45a6f-cf2b-47d0-9c5b-dd86538f8140 [SWAP]
└─sda6 ext4         5ca2e639-908b-4c5b-a77b-6af1e807f755 /home


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# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=0811d351-309e-430c-b0ba-61219d1dae41 / ext4 relatime,acl 1 1

# Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=8e8c4ce4-8896-4bff-b88c-93241287742b /backup ext4 defaults 1 2

# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=61172f24-bfa4-4943-8759-57ed1c4ec6eb /home ext4 relatime,acl 1 2

# Entry for /dev/sdd1 :
UUID=3F769F055C39E057 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=000,ro,nofail 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/sdb6 :
UUID=3f4feb4d-92a4-4874-845f-c10d201fc815 /usrmay16 ext4 defaults 1 2

# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=2db4d8f2-6fc6-47a5-b99c-accc5b8e1e67 swap swap defaults 0 0


[Ken-Bergen]

Can't you comment out the line in /etc/fstab for the drive you removed?

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# UUID=3f4feb4d-92a4-4874-845f-c10d201fc815 /usrmay16 ext4 defaults 1 2

[RoyD]

Hi Ken
I have not tried but of course I do not have the experience to decide what I should do or not. That is why I have come here for your recommendations before I do any thing.
Cheers Roy

[Ken-Bergen]

Hi Ken
I have not tried but of course I do not have the experience to decide what I should do or not. That is why I have come here for your recommendations before I do any thing.
Cheers Roy

As the drive is no longer there just comment it out.
All the # does is say "Don't process this line".

[RoyD]

Yes I have now done that now and it fixed it. Thank you. I am actually writing this from my Mageia machine. I am glad I did not rush around and waited for the experts.
Thank you and Doktor.
I am a happy man
Cheers Roy