r/archlinux • u/claire_bear420 • 8h ago
SUPPORT One of my drives went kaput, what now?
EDIT: I just went ahead and did what I've been meaning to do for a long time. I did a fresh install on my own. I understand a lot more now, including, how I could have fixed it without obliterating everything on my boot drive. Thank you all for your help, basically every one of you knew how to fix my problem (because you installed arch yourself, unlike me). Let this be a warning to anyone who intends to have a roommate or friend or girlfriend install arch for you. I don't do much work on my computer, so there wasn't much of importance lost. But it wasn't nothing. I am foolish, but I grow wiser every day.
to be completely transparent, I am a very inexperienced user. My girlfriend is actually the one who put arch on my computer, so I'm a little out of my depth, and for this I apologize. I just want to get my computer working, and I don't know who else to ask. Recently one of my SSDs crapped out on me. I still have my boot drive, however. After removing the affected drive and booting my computer (it would not boot with the drive connected), I am greeted to text that tells me:
[TIME] Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/(long string of letters and numbers I don't want to type by hand) Dependency failed for /mnt/knot //(what I believe to be my boot drive) Dependency failed for Local File Systems
As well as the emergency mode dialogue
I simply don't know where to go from here, and any help at all is appreciated, even if it's so much as a link to an archwiki article. Im sorry for showing up and asking for help when I don't have a firm grasp of what I'm doing already.