Hi Terry, > the advice is 'So it looks like the |ff55| UUID that it's complaining > about is sda1, presumably the / partition'.
sda1 is quite possibly the / partition containing the /boot directory; unless you have a separate /boot partition, but that's been out of favour in recent years. That sda2 is /home also suggests sda1 is /. > Since I have run extended SMART tests on both of my discs with no > error This just means the disk is happy to return bytes for each of the logical sectors on the disk, not that the bytes make sense as filesystems, or that the files within make sense for booting. > I'm left wondering what to do next. I'd suggest re-reading the thread given what you've learnt so far. - You can boot from something else and check if the, now unused, filesystems are happy with their data using an fsck. - There were a couple of links dealing with your particular error message. And there might be other things I've forgotten. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2026-01-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:[email protected]
