ostree-prepare-root failure

I’m experiencing the issue described here: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/2283#issuecomment-3198400617 but I’m not sure how to recover from it. It seems like I can’t boot from either of my grub entries without going into emergency maintenance mode.

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OSTree boot links can get out of sync · Issue #2283 · ostreedev/o...

We've had one instance recently in RHCOS where a system failed to boot with: systemd[1]: Starting OSTree Prepare OS/... ostree-prepare-root[887]: ostree-prepare-root: Couldn't find specifie...

TTrztn I’m experiencing the issue described here: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/i...

nagito || Knight of Emilia•8/21/25, 12:05 PM

you're not going into the regular emergency mode

nagito || Knight of Emilia•8/21/25, 12:06 PM

which is kind of an important distinction

nagito || Knight of Emilia•8/21/25, 12:06 PM

you're in the emergency mode on the initrd

TrztnOP•8/21/25, 12:51 PM

Yeah that sounds right

TTrztn Yeah that sounds right

nagito || Knight of Emilia•8/21/25, 4:39 PM

not entirely sure where to go from here but we cou;d try a few things

nagito || Knight of Emilia•8/21/25, 4:39 PM

like chrooting into the actual system

nagito || Knight of Emilia•8/21/25, 4:40 PM

& maybe running some commands to undo whatever happened here

TrztnOP•8/21/25, 5:59 PM

I did some exploration with AI earlier. This screen basically represents the most advanced progress I was able to make with it, right before I found the github issue describing basically exactly what I'm seeing and decided to come here and see if anyone else is dealing with this

ostree-prepare-root failure

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