Im giving a go fedora silverblue on a new laptop but Im unable to boot (and since im a linux noob the first thing i tried was installing it fresh again but that didnt resolve it).

its a single drive partitioned to ext4 and encrypted with luks (its basically the default config from the fedora installation)

any ideas for things to try?

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      51·
      2 months ago

      Don’t you have that backwards? This is an atomic distro, and you’d want to mkdir /var/home then symlink /home from that, no? Otherwise, you’ll wind up with a home directory that is immutable.

      • Nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
        51·
        2 months ago

        @Telorand I am not familiar with that distro, I am however familiar with how mount works. As far as what is immutable and what is not, you can set with chattr +i file/directory or chattr -i file/directory.

    • evasync@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      editing the /etc/fstab didnt work (I just changed the path but not sure if the uuid plays any part) but ill give the rm/mkdir part a go

        • evasync@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          2 months ago

          No but I rebooted the system after the change. do still need to update it regardless the reboot?

          • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Edit: Probably try @[email protected]’s solution of systemctl daemon-reload first.

            Yes. When booting, your system has an initial image that it boots off of before mounting file systems. You have to make sure the image reflects the updated fstab.

              • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                You might be right. I was thinking of it in terms of a traditional distro, as I use vanilla Debian where my advice would apply and yours probably wouldn’t.

                From what I do know, though, I guess /etc would be part of the writable roots overlaid onto the immutable image, so it would make sense if the immutable image was sort of the initramfs and was read when root was mounted or something. Your command is probably the correct one for immutable systems.

                • Nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  @data1701d It will work fine with Debian Bookworm, not sure about older releases, I don’t know at what point they switched to systemd controlling that but definitely does work in Bookworm. It should work in most other modern Debian or Ubuntu derived systems as well, but not older versions as systemd taking over this functionality is relatively recent.

      • DNOS@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        Make sure the uuid matches the uuid of the home partition you want, you can list uuids with blkid I think, big noob here too I just spent my last week trying to figure out why it wouldnt mount my boot partition and the problem was the UUID…