Hardware : MSI GL73-8RD
Software : Dual-boot windows 10 & Ubuntu 20.04
After manually shutting down Windows during an update (might or might not be related, but it is the only trigger I can think of), I wasn't able to boot into Ubuntu.
I would get sent to emergency mode. By digging around in AskUbuntu, I figured out I needed to check the journal, in which I found the following error :
fsck failed with exit status 4.
Failed to start File System Check on /dev/disk/by_uuid/[insert uuid]
Just above was an indication that the disk at fault was /dev/sda7
I then ran fsck -y /dev/sda7 which found some errors and corrected them but was succesfull.
I reboot the system and select Ubuntu in the boot menu. Grub seems to load fine, and then I have a black screen with an indication that it is counting "blocks" at the top left corner. It switches to a ubuntu loading screen with purple dots, but they don't get filled. Finally it transitions to an MSI waiting screen, and stays there seemingly indefinitely (at least 5 mins).
The computer is still booting in windows (with which I write right now).
Other things I tried before fsck :
- ensuring Windows fast start is disabled
- messing around with commenting files in fstab but it did not work and I reverted all the changes.
I am at a loss. Any help ?
