I suspect something else is wrong in your fstab.
If the kernel can't find the root partition specified in cmdline.txt I'd expect it to panic not to drop to recovery mode. If a mount fails it will drop into the recovery mode you're seeing.
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The fstab entry you've shared would cause the symptoms you're seeing if sda1 was not detected during boot or if it was detected but not formatted to ntfs.
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That should be init=/bin/sh
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If the kernel can't find the root partition specified in cmdline.txt I'd expect it to panic not to drop to recovery mode. If a mount fails it will drop into the recovery mode you're seeing.
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The fstab entry you've shared would cause the symptoms you're seeing if sda1 was not detected during boot or if it was detected but not formatted to ntfs.
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adding init #/bin/sh (or similar) to cmdline.txt
That should be init=/bin/sh
trying to find the PARTUUID variable I setup in cmdline.txt when I first setup the pi to boot up from SSD but I cannot find where I got that tutorial anymore, as its gone from my history
Code:
sudo blkidStatistics: Posted by thagrol — Thu Oct 10, 2024 11:41 pm
