UPDATE: I also cannot boot into Windows 7. I get the start normally or safe mode window.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:12 PM kaye n <guik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Friends! > > Desktop Computer One has a hard drive that is multiboot: Windows 7, > Debian, and another linux operating system which I will call linux-x. > > It seems that the MOTHERBOARD of Desktop Computer One has finally given > out (wild guess only, as even a linux live USB can't function properly). I > took out the multiboot hard drive and put it in another desktop computer > which I call Desktop Computer Two. > > Now I can boot into linux-x just fine with Desktop Computer Two. I'm > using linux-x to type and send this email. I have not tried the windows 7 > yet. > > However I cannot boot into Debian (I believe it is Debian 10). I get this > message: > > ----------------- > You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view > system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or "exit" > to boot into default mode. > > Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. > See sulogin(8) man page for more details. > > Press Enter to continue. > ------------------- > > If I press enter, I reach the Debian logo with the circling animation but > after a while I get the above message again. > > If it matters, the UUID of both / and /home partitions of the Debian > system remain the same; I compared the info provided by Gparted and the > /etc/fstab in the Debian system. > > Thank you for your time. > kaye > >
