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Booting Issues With Arch

Most Linux distros are transparent when it comes to their booting process. Users actually see the process as it scrolls down lines and text before it presents a login screen. This is more so in Arch. What I see on the screen is systemd checking the file systems as listed in my /etc/fstab file. All is fine when you see a green colored OK to the left of the line. What I read was the word "failed" somewhere and the next thing I knew was I was being kicked into an emergency shell.

Happened to me before, I said. But then it tells me my root account is locked. I forgot for a while that I did lock the root account because I was told it is a secuity risk and I did not need to keep a root account. I can just use sudo they said. I now find myself with an aborted boot process, on a console and I can't open the root account to do some troubleshooting with my system. What's worse is I'm in this loop where this script is trying to help me by suggesting I press Enter. And when I press it, it tells me my root account is locked.

It is time to stop this.

I brought my live USB. I think I made this rescue slash live USB two months ago. The kernel is <5.0. I had to modify the hardware's boot defaults so I can boot to the live medium. It gets better. I put a password to my motherboard's settings. I smile because how in the world did I remember my motherboard password? I may have used it twice.

In the live medium, I mounted the boot device and arch-chroot to it. Then I modified the /etc/fstab so I can just boot to the root directory and not bother with the other failing partitions for now. Saved the changes. Reboot. Once in the graphic environment, I run fsck for the failing partitions. More than once; until they can be mounted. Modified /etc/fstab back to the way it once was, saved it. I am scared to reboot right now. But here goes.

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