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[SOLVED] Mageia Not Starting - systemctl dafault
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Oct 13th, '12, 07:13by RoyD
Hi All, I bet I caused this problem. I have question - if you intend to remove a drive should you go to MCC, etc and unmount the drive? I removed a couple of drives and now my PC will not start with or without them.
I get to the Systemctl default message.
So I have now got my PC with only one drive installed. with root , swap and home. Do these drives needs labels to work?
Is my menu.lst corrupted as it is presently empty?
Thanks Roy
PS If I need to rebuild my system (look at signature below) Can I just put the Mageia 2 disk and run and at some stage it will allow me me to not format /home???
Re: Mageia Not Starting - systemctl dafault
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Oct 13th, '12, 08:05by Ken-Bergen
If the drives were not removed hot unmounting them is not necessary.
Your problem sounds like the boot loader was written to one of the drives you removed.
You could try an install using the DVD and choose Upgrade. Since there's nothing to upgrade it should only take a few minutes and at the end write the boot loader to the current drive.
Re: Mageia Not Starting - systemctl dafault
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Oct 13th, '12, 10:08by RoyD
Tried the upgrade and it looked like it did the upgrade well except when it started it had the same problem. When I am at systemctl error and if I type my root password and then run startx It does seem to work but not as my user. I can see my user files in mcc, manage disks but not in dolphin.
Re: Mageia Not Starting - systemctl dafault
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Oct 13th, '12, 10:21by Ken-Bergen
Is the /home partition mounted?
Please post the output of
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df
Re: Mageia Not Starting - systemctl dafault
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Oct 13th, '12, 10:41by RoyD
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[root@localhost ~]# df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 12G 5.2G 6.3G 46% /
devtmpfs 1009M 0 1009M 0% /dev
tmpfs 1012M 0 1012M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1012M 540K 1012M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 12G 5.2G 6.3G 46% /
tmpfs 1012M 0 1012M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda6 915G 150G 765G 17% /home
[root@localhost ~]#
Re: Mageia Not Starting - systemctl dafault
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Oct 14th, '12, 00:18by RoyD
I have fixed the problem. My fstab was a little bit wrong as it still had drives that I had removed (physically) . So by using VI and learning how to use it all is good.
Re: [SOLVED] Mageia Not Starting - systemctl dafault
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Oct 14th, '12, 00:39by Ken-Bergen
I glad you solved it but the solution is strange.
It's been many years since having missing drives or partitions in /etc/fstab caused booting problems.
Re: [SOLVED] Mageia Not Starting - systemctl dafault
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Oct 14th, '12, 05:03by RoyD
Well I have all 4 drives back in and all is good, virtual machines working, backup system working, spare drive working, some adjustments of course. I am not at all a Linux guru but that is how I fixed it. Nothing else. Next time I decide to remove (physically)a drive or I will do it for fun I will unmount the drive first to see if that does not cause the problem. Funny enough I received my Linux magazine today and it had an article on fstab. Cheers Roy
Re: [SOLVED] Mageia Not Starting - systemctl dafault
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Oct 14th, '12, 09:04by doktor5000
Ken-Bergen wrote:It's been many years since having missing drives or partitions in /etc/fstab caused booting problems.
Not at all, systemd is quite picky in some areas:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... t_in_fstab