Failing To Boot AFter Drive Failure

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I had a rotating disk fail on my workstation which had two mount points. The first was swap (which I only turned on when needed) and my /home directory. I physically removed the disk from the system and booted with plans on running as root until I get a new drive installed and setup. I booted in rescue mode and removed the two entries from my fstab file and then rebooted. If I don’t boot via rescue entry, the system hangs while attempting to do something on a disk (/dev/sdb2) that doesn’t exist on my system.

https://imgur.com/a/UjsxPnU

Here is where the system hangs. I have looked around and see nothing. The system does boot and run in rescue mode (which I am currently doing with this post).

Any ideas?

I tried to use the image link, but I am not sure why it wouldn’t present.

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Hi
Check grub, you likely have a resume entry which uses swap (sdb2)…


cat /proc/cmdline

If it’s there, when you boot press the ‘e’ key to edit and remove the resume= bit on the linuxefi (or linux) line and press F10 to boot. Once boot use YaST2 bootloader to edit and save.

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You probably have your swap partition mentioned in your GRUB configuration of the boot parameters to be used for hibernation.

Sorry, I see @malcolmlewis already points to the resume = paramter.

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Works like a charm now. Thank You so much for the quick response.