https://xbns.netlify.app/tags/troubleshooting/Recent content in troubleshooting on Pieces & Perspective BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://xbns.netlify.app/posts/how-to-boot-from-live-usb-probook-4540s/Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://xbns.netlify.app/posts/how-to-boot-from-live-usb-probook-4540s/Issue:Unable to boot from live USB Press ESC to interrupt booting process. Press F10 “BIOS SetUp” Navigate to System Configuration with Arrow Keys. Select Boot Options and press Enter. Under Boot Mode,Select UEFI(with CSM). Under UEFI Boot Order, ensure Generic USB is the first choice. Save your settings and Exit. Now press ESC again while system boots. Press F9 to select Boot Device Options. Select “USB Hard Drive”https://xbns.netlify.app/posts/fixing-light-display-manager/Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://xbns.netlify.app/posts/fixing-light-display-manager/Boot from Live USB mount root partition $ mount /dev/sda3 /mnt Enter a chroot to the root directory, here in / mounted as /mnt $ arch-chroot /mnt Then execute this command $ nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Toggle the available greeters, this is to fix situations where one greeter crushes such that you can’t login to the system. Gtk-greeter bit more stable than the other, but lacks major functionalities seen in the others like webkit2 and patheon.https://xbns.netlify.app/posts/working-with-external-hard-drives/Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://xbns.netlify.app/posts/working-with-external-hard-drives/This could be that is is not automounting coz of an error to do with bad sectors etc. 1 2 $ yes | sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g Then $ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdX where /dev/sdX is the Hard Drive e.g /dev/sdd1 Checking the type of your mounted partitions or devices 1 $ sudo blkid /dev/sdd Where /dev/sdd1 is your Check your mounted partitions/devices 1 $ cat /proc/mounts orhttps://xbns.netlify.app/posts/working-with-internal-hard-disk/Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://xbns.netlify.app/posts/working-with-internal-hard-disk/1 $ sudo shred -n 2 -z -v /dev/sda Verify the device by listing fdisk -l -n is the number of passes. -z will zero your drive. -v will display the progress of shred as it works SSD owner should use 1 pass instead of 2 if they want to reuse the drive. Wipe Disk 1 $ sudo parted /dev/sda --align opt mklabel gpt 0 931.