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[HELP] Device goes to emergency mode: "Timed out waiting for device"

Screenshot as text (excuse me if I have mistyped anything)


<span style="color:#323232;">DMAR: [Firmware Bug]: No firmware reserved region can cover this
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Contact BIOS vendor for fixes
</span><span style="color:#323232;">x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/dev/sda2: clean, 529831/31162368 files, 8432995/1246456392 blocks
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-byx2duuid-1ee4Scefx2deb91x2...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Dependency failed for drive.mount - /drive.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Dependency failed for local-fs.target - Local File Sustems.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">You are in emergency mode mode. After logging in, type “journalctl -xb" to view
</span><span style="color:#323232;">system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, “systemctl default" or "exit"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">to boot into default mode.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Give root password for maintenance
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(or press Control-D to continue):
</span>

I installed an m.2 SATA SSD into the device in addition to the old SATA SSD. However, it wouldn’t boot properly. I decided to take it out, and now it won’t boot using the existing SSD either. Does anyone know what could be the issue? So far, I’ve tried the following:

  1. Checking boot media order in BIOS
  2. Resetting BIOS
  3. Ensuring fstab used UUID’s (it already did)
  4. Updating initramfs

I’m using Debian 6.1.38-2 (2023-07-27).

EDIT: Dran’s suggestion to remove the /drive entry from fstab resolved the issue.

Dran_Arcana ,

The output of journalctl might be helpful for troubleshooting.

Also a cat of /etc/fstab

Initial guesses from what I can see: Do you have some sort of drive encryption on and does that encryption rely on your tpm?

Is that disk being enumerated properly? What does lsblk say? Do you see the partition/filesystem at all?

qaz OP ,

The output of journalctl might be helpful for troubleshooting.

These errors seemed important. If there is anything specific to look for, let me know. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ee3d4661-18bd-4751-bb65-7a7bc0784adf.jpeghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b682cc97-f762-408c-ba2a-1b45341fd6d2.jpeg

Also a cat of /etc/fstab

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4729adc8-e33c-4301-9b97-58aa8197ad28.jpeg

Initial guesses from what I can see: Do you have some sort of drive encryption on and does that encryption rely on your tpm?

I don’t use disk encryption as far as I’m aware

Is that disk being enumerated properly? What does lsblk say? Do you see the partition/filesystem at all?

It looks normal to me. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c65c97f7-4fbf-4559-a99d-28c8720042c5.jpeg

Dran_Arcana ,

/drive is not a standard mount in a Debian install. Presumably that’s something you did.

There’s also no unaccounted for partitions on /sda

If you comment that like out for the /drive mount, it should boot. I’d say better than 50/50 the rest of that is red herrings that have been there since you installed

qaz OP ,

It works again, thank you so much!

Dran_Arcana ,

Glad to hear. If there’s a lesson to be taken from here, it’s to make sure after installing a distro, make note of anything odd in dmesg, journalctl, etc. There’s about eight rabbitholes you could have gone down for weeks and overlooked the obvious here just because we didn’t know what “normal” looked like for your system.

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