On 26 May 2026 at 20:58, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Tue, 26 May 2026 20:58:09 -0700 Subject: Re: Had a major issue with machine not booting fully. To: [email protected] From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> On 5/26/26 8:53 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Had a typhoon go thru, and power was out for 6 days. > > All but one machine came up, but power is still having lots of > > issues. > > > > The one machine that wasn't booting had its power supply get fired, > > but replacing it got machine to start booting, but would just hang. > > Would not boot from default kernel or others, and not with rescue. > > Machine would boot fine from my g4l kernel and its initramfs with > > no problem. So grub is working. Ran fsck on all the partitions, and > > it fixed some minor things on some. But reboot still was hanging. > > Figured something was wrong with the /boot or swap. /dev/sda1 > > and /dev/sda2 so copied those partition from another machine, and > > reset the fstab to match the blkid. But still no luck. > > So copied the / partition /dev/sda3 and again synced the fstab to the > > blkid /home is /dev/sda5 so matched it. > > > > Machine booting with rescue kernel gets to this point. > > > > Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-9we0af15\x2...tart running (8min 14s > > > > Machine is 17 timezones away from were I am, so brother is doing > > reboots, and sends screen shots. If I was physically there, would > > backup the /home directory, and jus do a clean install. > > > > So at a loose? Hardware seems to be OK, and /boot, /swap, / > > partitions sda1, sda2, and sda3 have bin bit copied from another > > machine. fstab for sda5 /home has been matched. > > > > Thinking it must be something with the disks being different. > > So, need to get this dev-disk-by to get thru rather than hanging. > > blkid only shows uuids for the partitions. > > If you copied partitions from another computer, they're going to have > different UUIDs, which is why the service is stuck. It's waiting for > the right UUID to show up. You need to fix /etc/fstab to match the new > UUIDs. I did just that. copied the sda1 /boot sda2 /swap sda3 / to machine. Have it booted to my g4l kernel, check all partition report no errors. mount the /dev/sda3 change to /etc run blkid to get the current uuids. modify the fstab to have all the correct uuids. reboot machine, ad it ends with that message. Normal boot would not take 8 minutes. So the uuids listed in fstab match with what blkid reports. Talks about by-disk, so don't know were the disk uuid is recorded blkid doesn't show any uudi for /dev/sda just for the partitions. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
