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Im giving a go fedora silverblue on a new laptop but Im unable to boot (and since im a linux noob the first thing i tried was installing it fresh again but that didnt resolve it).

its a single drive partitioned to ext4 and encrypted with luks (its basically the default config from the fedora installation)

any ideas for things to try?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Edit: Probably try @[email protected]'s solution of systemctl daemon-reload first.

Yes. When booting, your system has an initial image that it boots off of before mounting file systems. You have to make sure the image reflects the updated fstab.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@data1701d @evasync You don't have to reboot to effect that, systemdctl daemon-reload will reload the /etc/fstab file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might be right. I was thinking of it in terms of a traditional distro, as I use vanilla Debian where my advice would apply and yours probably wouldn't.

From what I do know, though, I guess /etc would be part of the writable roots overlaid onto the immutable image, so it would make sense if the immutable image was sort of the initramfs and was read when root was mounted or something. Your command is probably the correct one for immutable systems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@data1701d It will work fine with Debian Bookworm, not sure about older releases, I don't know at what point they switched to systemd controlling that but definitely does work in Bookworm. It should work in most other modern Debian or Ubuntu derived systems as well, but not older versions as systemd taking over this functionality is relatively recent.