I've had no problem running Mint since version 19, and I've always upgraded via the upgrade instructions instead of doing a fresh install. Never a problem with this before.
However, this time after following the upgrade instructions from 20.3 Cinnamon, when I reboot I get an
ALERT! UUID=<boot device UUID> does not exist! Dropping to a shell!
and then a BusyBox version number and an
(initramfs)
prompt.After this failure I burned a LM21 ISO on a USB and booted into that to try BootRepair. That doesn't appear to work, but I did produce a BootInfo summary to pastebin, here: http://sprunge.us/nQgkAA
I should say I have 2x 1TB SSDs in a hardware RAID0 as my boot device.
/
and /usr
are in separate partitions, along with a data partition and a swap partition (32gb to match RAM as I do hibernate the machine often).This has never been a problem before or during upgrades as I mentioned.The machine also has a 2TB HDD on which
/home
and /var
reside, as well as a data partition and an old 4gb swap partition that I haven't bothered to remove to date (was planning to after this upgrade, since I've had to try a fresh install anyway). My timeshift folder is in the data partition on this drive, and my non-system files are all backed up to a USB drive array under mergerfs with backintime and more recently borg. So I'm covered for backups.I tried a fresh install of LM21 to the SSD RAID, and reformatted
/var
and /usr
as part of the fresh install, but want to leave the data partition on the HDD alone because, as I said, it contains my timeshift backup folder. I still get the same results about the boot device UUID not existing.I've checked the GRUB config with 'e' from the boot menu and it is the correct UUID.
Googling for
alert uuid does not exist
doesn't bring up an answer that seems to apply to my case.At this point my options are to go back to LM20.3 (hopefully I'll be able to reinstall it) or to appeal for help here on the forum.
Your help would be much appreciated.
Here is
inxi -Fxxxrz
output, produced in the LM21 installer live session:
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System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-41-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.8 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: Mutter vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: XPS 8300 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0Y2MRG v: A01 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell
v: A06 date: 10/17/2011
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M510 serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
smt: enabled arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2535 high: 3690 min/max: 1600/3800 cores: 1: 2045
2: 3690 3: 2002 4: 1673 5: 1845 6: 3690 7: 3688 8: 1649 bogomips: 54277
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: Dell XPS 8300 driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: HDMI-A-1
empty: DP-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0102 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] vendor: eVga.com.
driver: nouveau v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4 ports:
active: DVI-D-1,HDMI-A-2 empty: none bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d01
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915,nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5760x1200 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1524x318mm (60.0x12.5")
s-diag: 1557mm (61.3")
Monitor-1: DVI-D-1-1 mapped: DVI-D-1 pos: primary,left model: Dell U2410
serial: <filter> res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94 size: 518x324mm (20.4x12.8")
diag: 611mm (24.1") modes: max: 1920x1200 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: HDMI-1 mapped: HDMI-A-1 pos: center
model: LG (GoldStar) Ultra HD serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
dpi: 81 size: 600x340mm (23.6x13.4") diag: 690mm (27.2") modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
Monitor-3: HDMI-1-2 mapped: HDMI-A-2 pos: right model: LG (GoldStar) TV
serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 dpi: 30 size: 1600x900mm (63.0x35.4")
diag: 1836mm (72.3") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 2000 (SNB GT1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 22.0.1 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Dell XPS 8300 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com.
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb8 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-41-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Dell Inspiron M5010 / XPS 8300 driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4727
class-ID: 0280
Device-2: Broadcom NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Dell XPS 8300 driver: tg3 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: N/A bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1691 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wlp2s0b1 state: down mac: <filter>
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0
port: f060 bus-ID: 00:1f.2 chip-ID: 8086:2822 rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.65 TiB used: 1.13 TiB (31.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC26 scheme: MBR
ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide
size: 7.45 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.26 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 15.6 GiB used: 270.2 MiB (1.7%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
ID-2: /var/log size: 5.01 GiB used: 73.2 MiB (1.4%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sdd3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sdc7
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 41.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 871 mobo: 913
Repos:
Packages: apt: 2079
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 21 _Vanessa_ - Release amd64 20220726]/ jammy main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
Processes: 308 Uptime: 19h 36m wakeups: 17 Memory: 31.21 GiB
used: 2.53 GiB (8.1%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 11 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
inxi: 3.3.13
lsblk -f
output:
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NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 squashfs 4.0 0 100% /rofs
sda isw_raid_member 1.0.00
├─sda1
├─sda2
├─sda3
└─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0
├─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0p1 ext4 1.0 92e6acfa-f360-4e04-899f-b011c0ef2b08
├─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0p2 ext4 1.0 9526306b-43b9-41b3-a265-35b9b7f89203
├─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0p3 ext4 1.0 e31cd88c-7456-4d0b-81fb-1b6fd1965000
└─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0p4 swap 1 cf30b74f-3cfe-4cdc-b95f-3e757b4ae994
sdb isw_raid_member 1.0.00
└─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0
├─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0p1 ext4 1.0 92e6acfa-f360-4e04-899f-b011c0ef2b08
├─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0p2 ext4 1.0 9526306b-43b9-41b3-a265-35b9b7f89203
├─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0p3 ext4 1.0 e31cd88c-7456-4d0b-81fb-1b6fd1965000
└─isw_cjgccechdg_Volume0p4 swap 1 cf30b74f-3cfe-4cdc-b95f-3e757b4ae994
sdc
├─sdc1
├─sdc5 ext4 1.0 01804bc3-1685-41f5-a728-40392688236a
├─sdc6 ext4 1.0 HOME a0f81015-b364-44a5-af91-47949dc25f33
├─sdc7 swap 1 4ea714e5-19d9-4f71-8ecd-a4c17265491e [SWAP]
└─sdc8 ext4 1.0 HDDdata 3217bd49-f3a4-44c6-ae21-5e6e96c5bf54
sdd iso9660 Joliet Extension Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon 64-bit 2022-07-26-15-24-44-00
├─sdd1 iso9660 Joliet Extension Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon 64-bit 2022-07-26-15-24-44-00 0 100% /cdrom
├─sdd2 vfat FAT12 ESP 8D6C-A9F8
└─sdd3 ext4 1.0 writable 01b63587-7d77-4524-9948-4f38b346cbd4 4.7G 1% /var/log
sde
sdf
sdg
sdh
sdi
sr0