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Stuck in rescue mode

PostPosted: Apr 15th, '14, 17:56
by megamagition
I have been trying all sorts of fixes online but none of them seem to be working. Here is my situation:

I'm trying to dual boot mageia 64 bit KDE and win8.1 64bit. It shows the custom Maegia grub screen but beyond that everythign is failing. Before, it was giving me the apgart error and them promting me to enter my password for root access etc.

Then I followed the instructions here and it mostly fixed that:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... -fedora-20

Now it just plain boots into rescue mode without any reason.

My specs:
Acer Aspire V3-772G
Intel Core i7-4702mq
Nvidia Geforce GTX 760M

Re: Stuck in rescue mode

PostPosted: Apr 15th, '14, 21:19
by martinw
A likely cause is that Mageia is configured to mount your Windows partition and you have Windows 8 fast startup enabled. Try disabling fast startup in Windows (e.g. instructions here) to see if this fixes the problem.

Re: Stuck in rescue mode

PostPosted: Apr 15th, '14, 22:09
by megamagition
Im using Legacy not UEFI so I could only follow some of that through, but it did fix the problem! Thanks.

Re: Stuck in rescue mode

PostPosted: Apr 15th, '14, 23:33
by doktor5000
Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks