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My pi-top says this when it tried to boot and I tried the method of holding down shift when turning it on but I can't edit the program! Can somebody please help?

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The boot loader cannot find the root partition. There are some possibilities which will fail boot up:

  1. The entry for root= in /boot/cmdline.txt is wrong.
  2. The entry in /etc/fstab for the root partion is wrong.
  3. The root partition isn't formated as ext4 filesystem
  4. There is no root filesystem on the root partition
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  • None of the items mentioned would be as result of normal operation, right? – Jan Hus Aug 10 '18 at 23:45
  • @JanHus Right, they all will fail boot up. I have clarified my answer. – Ingo Aug 11 '18 at 0:02
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Sorry, been there, done that. I know that does not help you , but shift to "recover" did not fix anything for me either.

Your SD is most likely kaput - probably powered down at wrong time. . To verify - try reformatting it OUTSIDE Pi.

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