Universal Blue•5h ago

Cannot open access to console, root account is locked.

im getting this issue, im assuming because i tried to mount my ntsf game drive. i was able to game for it on awhile but this issue came up im not sure why this happening. is it better to format my game drive to a exfat so its more compatible for bazzite. also i am dual booting my system for context so i want to share my library between windows and bazzite

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nagito || Knight of Emilia•5h ago

yeah you didn't mount it it quite right did you update after setting that up? if no that's good

DVsTheWorldOP•5h ago

no i didn’t

nagito || Knight of Emilia•5h ago

oh good it's simple to fix then select the other ostree option in the boot menu(grub) that one should boot & update that should fix the main system

DVsTheWorldOP•5h ago

let me try that. i’m at work rn but ill respond once im able to see what happens

nagito || Knight of Emilia•5h ago

edit fstab by hand?

DVsTheWorldOP•4h ago

yes i edited fstab in the terminal

nagito || Knight of Emilia•4h ago

you should have added a nofail bit to the line in fstab else the drive becomes essential & the system fails to boot without it as it's doing now

DVsTheWorldOP•4h ago

sounds good i did not do that. i might reinstall bazzite

nagito || Knight of Emilia•4h ago

probably not

DVsTheWorldOP•4h ago

and start from the beginning

nagito || Knight of Emilia•4h ago

as i said booting the other ostree option should absolutely fix it as long as you didn't update after adding this it's no problem

DVsTheWorldOP•4h ago

ok sounds good, i’ll try doing this after work what would the code look like when i mount my drive in the fstab with no fail?

nagito || Knight of Emilia•4h ago

for example here's my own fstab

# This is a generated file.  Do not edit!
#
# To make changes, edit the fileSystems and swapDevices NixOS options
# in your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

# Filesystems.
/dev/disk/by-label/nixos-rootfs / auto x-initrd.mount 0 0


# Swap devices.
/home/.swapfile none swap defaults

# This is a generated file.  Do not edit!
#
# To make changes, edit the fileSystems and swapDevices NixOS options
# in your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

# Filesystems.
/dev/disk/by-label/nixos-rootfs / auto x-initrd.mount 0 0


# Swap devices.
/home/.swapfile none swap defaults

look where it says x-initrd.mount for me well currently that's probably defaults for you it should be defaults,nofail as for what filesystem to use btrfs would be best for the shared drive though you need a driver for that on Windows you boot Windows to repair the shared drive once that's done there's a way to convert from NTFS to BTRFS no format required you keep all the data

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