I run Debian 13 on a ThinkPad t470 laptop. It has been very reliable
over the years but just recently a secondary drive (not used at all
for boot) has become a bit flakey and now it won't boot at all.
It gets to:-
Cannot open access to cosole, the root account is locked
See sulogin(8) man page for more details
Press enter to continue
Pressing enter gets one nowhere.
I'm creating a new boot/installation USB stick so I can boot from USB
and then edit the system's /etc/fstab to remove the faulty drive's
mount.
However it does seem a bit 'unfriendly' to make the system totally
unbootable if a drive that isn't needed at all for the boot process
can't be mounted by fstab.
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Chris Green
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