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ckbcowboy
April 20th, 2017, 08:28 PM
I resized and moved a few partitions, then followed the instructions in both of these places, with no luck:

http://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual&lang=C#gparted-fix-grub-boot-problem
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

I see the GRUB menu and can boot into Windows ("Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/nvme0n1p1)" in GRUB) just fine, but when I try to boot into "Ubuntu" ("*Ubuntu" in GRUB), it sits for a while and then I get the "Welcome to emergency mode!" prompt.

There are also a bunch of new GRUB options that didn't exist before I changed my partitions.

My pastebin from Boot-Repair is here http://paste2.org/WtKpgjmh

Help? Thanks!

TheFu
April 21st, 2017, 02:34 AM
Welcome to the forums.

Need to see the fstab file and blkid output. Please use code tags for both. Didn't see the fstab in the paste2.org stuff.
I suspect that the partition changes were sufficient to either change the order and/or alter the UUIDs.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab explains how the fstab file works.

ckbcowboy
April 21st, 2017, 04:27 AM
I figured it out! I had actually deleted a partition to make space for the move, and didn't realize I also had to remove it from /etc/fstab. Once I did that, the computer booted just fine.

Thanks!

RobGoss
April 22nd, 2017, 12:05 AM
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Thanks so much

Jim_in_Germany
May 31st, 2017, 02:20 PM
I figured it out! I had actually deleted a partition to make space for the move, and didn't realize I also had to remove it from /etc/fstab. Once I did that, the computer booted just fine.

Thank you! I had exactly the same problem and this solved it for me. You saved me hours worth of work.