EDIT 2024-02-18: Solved! JohnnyMac was right, I have no clue why, but the boot priority changed and the reboot after the update caused the issue to manifest. I have excluded the device from the bootable devices in the BIOS and it boots again.

I figured out that it was an issue with my external USB dual bay HDD enclosure. It doesn’t boot when it’s plugged in, even after removing it from /etc/fstab. It doesn’t even reach the GRUB menu when plugged in. It only displays a blinking cursor, doesn’t allow switching the terminal with CTRL + ALT + FX but does restart with CTRL + ALT + DELETE. It’s able to reach emergency mode when the device isn’t plugged in and is able to boot fine if it’s removed /etc/fstab. Does anyone know what could be causing this issue? Everything works fine when it’s plugged in after booting up the system.

These were the packages updated:

  • base-files
  • bind9-dnsutils
  • bind9-host
  • bind9-libs
  • fish
  • fish-common
  • gnutls-bin
  • libcpupower1
  • libcryptsetup12
  • libgnutls-dane0
  • libgnutls30
  • libisl23
  • libnss-mymachines
  • libnss-systemd
  • libpam-systemd
  • libsystemd-shared
  • libsystemd0
  • libudev1
  • libunbound8
  • libxencall1
  • libxendevicemodel1
  • libxenevtchn1
  • libxenforeignmemory1
  • libxengnttab1
  • libxenhypfs1
  • libxenmisc4.17
  • libxenstore4
  • libxentoolcore1
  • libxentoollog1
  • linux-cpupower
  • linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64
  • linux-image-amd64
  • ovmf
  • qemu-block-extra
  • qemu-system-common
  • qemu-system-data
  • qemu-system-gui
  • qemu-system-x86
  • qemu-utils
  • systemd
  • systemd-container
  • systemd-sysv
  • systemd-timesyncd
  • tailscale
  • tar
  • tzdata
  • udev
  • usb.ids
  • usbutils
  • usr-is-merged

EDIT: Quickly plugging it in after GRUB has loaded seems to work.

  • qaz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Thanks. I didn’t think this was the solution because I haven’t touched the BIOS, but I tried anyway and it worked. I have no clue how or why, but the external drive somehow got priority over the internal SSD, even though I didn’t even touch the BIOS for at least a month. I have excluded the device from booting in the BIOS and hope it won’t change again.