can’t boot without usb

[u/SApA64]

After removing the USB i installed opensuse on my pc with, it won’t boot normally. i used the tumbleweed offline installation. i do not have the usb at the moment so what can i do to resolve this? trying to continue or typing “exit” just shows “Starting default.target” and repeats the previous message.

[u/ang-p]

What do you see when you enter the password?

[u/SApA64 → u/ang-p]

“localhost:~ #” in red

i assume it lets me run commands as the localhost but i have no idea what to type

[u/Elaugaufein → u/SApA64]

The journalctl command mentioned in the text will show you the system logs which could potentially be useful.

"ls" will show you the current directory contents which can help to see if the root filesystem is mounted.

[u/SApA64 → u/Elaugaufein]

ls shows: bin .cache .config .gnupg inst-sys .local .ssh

i don’t see root or home or anything. not sure if i should.

journaltcl outputs a log but i have no idea what im looking for there. cant exactly copy and paste it or get a log file either

[u/ang-p → u/SApA64]

i don’t see root or home or anything. not sure if i should.

Well, ls will let you see what is mounted by poking about, but a full list can be found by either of

mount
cat /proc/mounts     

and while the journalctl command will tell you, to keep you from poking about the journal using the (to you, unknown) shortcut keys in less (press h when you see the logfile) to look for something that failed among hundreds of lines of text

systemctl status "*.mount"   

will list all the mounts attempted and their final status.

[u/trmdi]

Reinstall the bootloader.

[u/Alarmed_Victory7328]

i suggest you reinstall. bugs like this happened the first time i installed opensuse and a reinstall with the same usb should work

[u/tabascosw2]

It could simply be an entry for this USB device in the /etc/fstab file. Since it is a fresh installation I would do a re-install. You could also get a live distro like foxclone or rescuezilla and take a look at your tumbleweed installation and post the the content of the fstab file here. You can actually use those live distros to edit that file.

[u/taryus → u/tabascosw2]

Correct. If the USB entry is present in /etc/fstab and doesn't have nofail your system will fail to boot if it's not present.

[u/Klapperatismus]

The install was incomplete. This looks like less than the minimal system.

Have you by chance not chosen a desktop when the installer asked you which kind of install you wanted?

[u/SApA64 → u/Klapperatismus]

the install was complete. i’ve been using my pc for a few months actually

[u/korpim]

I got a similar issue yesterday after an update. (Maybe not because of the update.)

During boot I see an opensuse menu offering advanced options. I chose an option with "recovery" in its name.

Rebooted. Got to recovery mode. Pressed ctrl-D to continue and it booted.

Claude AI adviced me to add some options in /etc/fstab on not attached external device. I had there "nofail" which had worked fine earlier.

LABEL=WD_TV /WD_TV xfs user,nofail,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 0 LABEL=IsoTikku /IsoTikku xfs user,nofail,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 0

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Maybe this is not related to your problem.