Context: I updated my CachyOS (Arch) BTRFS system. Some new things caused few problems especially brave browser(missing tabs), some icons missing.
So I wanted to go back to previous snapshot.
What I did: I first restored my home subvol which I saved before update. I worked.
Then I tried to restored my root partition. This is where I got the problem.
I got this error.
I would really appreciate URGENT help
If you need any more details I can provide.
- What steps did you take to rollback your root subvolume?
- Can you log into the emergency shell and share any logs?
- Is your root partition mounted in the emergency shell, or is the initramfs still mounted in the emergency shell?
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I just used BTRFS Assistant to restore. I did while the OS is on.
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I shared some on edited post. Pleae look.
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Idk for sure. But it shows my user name after I enter password. So, I think root?
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Did you try regenerating the initramfs after rolling back the root partition? That’s what’s wrong whenever my install is fucked. I’m unfamiliar with the recovery console but see if you can
- manually unencrypt
cryptsetup open /dev/nvme0n1p2 root
, - mount
mount /dev/mapper/root /mnt -o subvol=
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
, - chroot into the system
arch-chroot /mnt
- and run
mkinitcpio -P
Edit: Oh the screenshot just loaded in. The problem seems to be that you can’t mount /boot? What happens when you try to mount it manually?
- manually unencrypt
well, you can start by typing the journalctl command the system is instructing you to, after getting into the maintenance shell. always get the logs and error messages so you can understand what happened. if you need to, share it with us so we can have a go at deciphering what the computer is saying about it.
it would help if you could provide more details about what you were trying to do, and how it broke to make a restore necessary in the first place.
Journal is 2667 lines 🥲
Please look at edited post.
i see it struggling to mount the boot device is the device id its referencing on the fstab and on refind matching its current id?
It does match.
I included refind_linux.conf and partition UUID already. Should I include fstab too?
does it mount correctly from a live usb?
alternatively, can you mount it manually from maintenance shell?
meaning: is the boot partition botched, or is it a bootloader config issue?