Locked out of my bazzite installation
So, I was having a "Disk Write" error on an ntfs drive shared with windows, and checked for other people with the same problem here.
Found this link to use an ntfs drive with linux https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows and followed it's steps
However bazzite won't boot anymore and it's giving the error in the image.
Everything on windows works just fine.
I did make some alterations to my sudoers to enable rebooting to windows using a shell script from inside steam, althou the path might be slightly different from what's in there, that's basically it
%wheel ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/efibootmgr
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Using a NTFS disk with Linux and Windows
Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components - ValveSoftware/Proton
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you essentially broke your fstab you need to fix it, if you cant fix it using
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/rescue-and-emergency-mode/
and manually fixing the file
or by booting the
ostree:1 entry in grub then do rpm-ostree rollback, youre cooked if neither works....Booting to Rescue & Emergency Mode - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
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you essentially broke your fstab you need to fix it, if you cant fix it using
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/rescue-and-emergency-mode/
and manually fixing the file
or by booting the
ostree:1 entry in grub then do rpm-ostree rollback, youre cooked if neither works.
if the grub boot menu is hidden then press ESC when booting, if youre taken to the grub command line type normal to get the menu back.Booting to Rescue & Emergency Mode - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
got to the boot menu, but nothing I press does anything, so I can't enter edit to add the emergency param, or try to rollback the ostree
choose fedora, press enter and keep pressing ESC as that is the bios boot menu not the bootloader menu
It worked! Thanks so much
however now the back buttons are not working (for opening keyboard for instance)
I've tried rerunning the inital setup extras (the one that installs decky loader for instance) and updating and restarting, nothing still
Looking at the screenshot above, it looks like you have an Rog Ally X. try press the armory crate button twice to bring up HHD, then change your emulated controller to a dual-sense controller. That controller should have support for the back buttons.
Still nothing, and pressing the armory crate button is not opening hhd
Then what is probably happening is hhd isn't running for some reason. try switch to desktop mode open the terminal and run
sudo systemctl enable --now hhd@$(whoami) see if you get any errorsThat did it, thanks very much
Now it's time for our recommendation if we do not support running games from NTFS. It will cause issues in the long run so we will not help with any game related issues you run into
We recommend btrfs as it has a Windows driver
Is there a way to convert NTFS to btrfs? Don't want want to have to reinstall everything again
The same person who made the WinBtrfs driver made this tool https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs . I've never tried it. Might work
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I tried the converter once, but it didn't work. I never needed to retry it though
I'm guessing having so little free space on the drive didn't help
Will try it then, and update you guys here
keep in mind that converting is high risk
by "didn't work," I should clarify that the drive ended up in an unusable state after the failed conversion attempt, so I had to reformat it in the end
well, a small chance is better than no chance I guess
but what are the long run issues I might find using ntfs?
filesystem corruption being one of them
so, either I format now or I format when I'm forced to lol
that's pretty much it. I kept using NTFS because like you I didn't want to reformat and reinstall, until I stumbled across the conversion script. Maybe I could've kept going with NTFS because I was a combination of knowing how to maintain it but also knowing I shouldn't.
Personally I’d recommend biting the bullet and reformatting it now instead of later on… I’ve been in similar situations and every time I’ve put it off or said “eh” it’s bitten me in the rear.
yeah, went on to do that, but I messed up and bricked my bazzite installation again lmao. Will give it a rest for today, see if I can format it tomorrow
But thanks everyone for the help
Did you have the drive auto mounted and now you are stuck in emergency mode? Been there done that. There is a guide in the docs to fix it https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/Auto-Mounting_Secondary_Drives/#emergency-mode-after-mounting