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?
The boot loader cannot find the root partition. There are some possibilities which will fail boot up:
- The entry for
root=
in/boot/cmdline.txt
is wrong. - The entry in
/etc/fstab
for the root partion is wrong. - The root partition isn't formated as
ext4
filesystem - 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
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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.