System does not boot
by pschmitt from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5CD8P)
I am running OpenSuse Leap 15 on a lenovo T440p.
After a call "zypper up" the system would not boot. It stop
with the prompt "grub>".
I speculate that the problem came from the fact that the directory
/home/pschmitt was 100% full.
(1) Following instructions found in the internet I did what
is required for booting with grub.
The system ended up in maintenance mode.
I learned that this is due to a wrong fstab. I removed the
mount instructions for fritz.nas. Since this did not help I also
removed the mount for a brtsf file system from fstab.
I later learned that this file system stores the snap files.
The effect was that the system did not boot at all.
(2) Now I was going for a new installation using another, older laptop
running Kubuntu I downloaded
openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso
and also
openSUSE-Leap-15.2-Rescue-CD-x86_64-Build31.307-Media.iso
and used the command
sudo dd bs=4M if=openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb1
conv=fdatasync status=progress
to create a live usb disk.
Plugging this disk into the not-booting laptop and power it
up still ended as before with "grub>"
Also interupting the boot process and choosing the ubs disk
a temporary booting device did not change this.
I am desperate and at the end of my wits.
After a call "zypper up" the system would not boot. It stop
with the prompt "grub>".
I speculate that the problem came from the fact that the directory
/home/pschmitt was 100% full.
(1) Following instructions found in the internet I did what
is required for booting with grub.
The system ended up in maintenance mode.
I learned that this is due to a wrong fstab. I removed the
mount instructions for fritz.nas. Since this did not help I also
removed the mount for a brtsf file system from fstab.
I later learned that this file system stores the snap files.
The effect was that the system did not boot at all.
(2) Now I was going for a new installation using another, older laptop
running Kubuntu I downloaded
openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso
and also
openSUSE-Leap-15.2-Rescue-CD-x86_64-Build31.307-Media.iso
and used the command
sudo dd bs=4M if=openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb1
conv=fdatasync status=progress
to create a live usb disk.
Plugging this disk into the not-booting laptop and power it
up still ended as before with "grub>"
Also interupting the boot process and choosing the ubs disk
a temporary booting device did not change this.
I am desperate and at the end of my wits.