Formatting USB containing Agama Installer broke OpenSUSE booting

[jrolph]

I installed OpenSUSE Slowroll using Agama installer on a USB stick a couple weeks ago. Install went fine, minimal problems I couldn’t eventually resolve while using the OS, so I formatted my USB stick using Yast2 partitioner earlier. I just tried to boot into OpenSUSE but at the console before the login page it gets stuck with the following messages;

This occurs even when booting in recovery mode, and whether or not the USB
I didn’t tell it to mount after formatting so I didn’t expect an fstab entry to be messing things up, so I wouldn’t expect that to be the case but I can’t think what else it would be. How can I edit fstab pre-boot, or use my computer at all? Why does just formatting a USB make things this ****ing complicated? The senselessness of this makes it even more frustrating I would really rather not go back to Windows but im regretting switching

[malcolmlewis]

@jrolph So there is a mount point /home/jacob/USB, that takes a user effort to create, not the system? Or maybe a desktop environment feature?

Enter the root password at the prompt, should be able to edit in-situ.

[jrolph]

Just tried restoring a snapshot “pre partition” but made no difference.

I’m relatively new to linux & particularly opensuse so still learning.
What commands would I use to edit fstab from there?
If it did make an entry I wouldn’t expect it to completely refuse to boot in recovery mode over a USB stick…

[malcolmlewis]

@jrolph vi /etc/fstab arrow the cursor down to the offending UUID entry, press the i key to insert, then add ## once done, press the esc key then press :wq to write and quit vi.

You can add some options to skip, but better to stop and alert the admin there is an issue, rather than blindly moving on to potentially bork the system?