hello,
i recently purchased a refurbished acer aspire 3 (A315-510P).
the bios is Insyde H20, v1.09
since I got it I m trying to install Wilma (mint22) on it. The USB live session is working fine the installation is always successful, but just after i try to reboot to my new system, just after the splash, it falls in the busybox prompt saying "Gave up waiting for root filesystem device, etcetc"
originally the laptop had windows 11 on it, I tried a dual booting configuration at start and then as the days past, the forum solutions all tried and my frustration growing, i ditched the windows made the partitions as they should be, and still i got the same problem...
After having gone through many linux related posts and solutions that did nt work i wondering whether it s something to do with firmware/hardware…
Just for the record i have tried
-setting secure boot, fast boot off
-then putiting secure boot on trying to add uefi files as trusted for executing through the bios and putiing it off again.
-disable/enable tpm
- adding flags to grub, like nomodeset and the one about the delay...
the last pointer I had from another forum was that doing a check on my efs partition fails and gives the following
GParted 1.5.0configuration
--enable-libparted-dmraid
--enable-online-resizelib
parted 3.6
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Device:/dev/sdb
Model:WDC SDINFDO4-128G
Serial:Sector size:4096
Total sectors:31246336
Heads:255
Sectors/track:9
Cylinders:13614
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Check and repair file system (fat32) on /dev/sdb2 00:04:41 ( ERROR )
calibrate /dev/sdb2 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sdb2 (partition)start: 999936end: 1124863size: 124928 (488.00 MiB)
check file system on /dev/sdb2 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
fsck.fat -a -w -v '/dev/sdb2' 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystemBoot sector contents:System ID "mkfs.fat"Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
4096 bytes per logical sector
4096 bytes per cluster32 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 131072 (sector 32)2 FATs, 32 bit entries
499712 bytes per FAT (= 122 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 1130496 (sector 276)
124590 data clusters (510320640 bytes)63 sectors/track, 255 heads
7999488 hidden sectors
124866 sectors total
Reclaiming unconnected clusters.
Checking free cluster summary./dev/sdb2: 15 files, 2871/124590 clusters
grow file system to fill the partition 00:04:41 ( ERROR )
using libpartedlibparted messages ( ERROR )
The file system is bigger than its volume!The information sector has the wrong signature (0).
Select cancel for now, and send in a bug report. If you're desperate, it's probably safe to ignore.
can anyone help with this?
thanks
giorgos
[Edited the thread to add model name and issue detail to the title]
