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      I’m sure they announce it on their loudspeakers when you’re in the store too.

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        Oh man I would do this all the time. When I worked a grocery store it had suse and later they switched to windows. Before if anything didn’t work it was user error like rebooting with personal items left on the keyboard. After we had self checkouts that would bluescreen and other than myself only two people knew how to reboot them. If it had arch I would make sure everyone knew.

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    Is this an actual video wall? Looked like bad CGI art. Kinda absurd.

    Great post though.

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      I haven’t seen this thing in action under normal conditions since I just looted the picture off Faceborg, but I imagine it probably shows a slideshow of ads.

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    I had a HDD fail on my media server and that screen gives me ptsd. I could clean it up with fsck for a while, but it meant plugging a keyboard and monitor into the box. A huge PIMA, I should have swapped out that drive the first time it happened.

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      You didn’t immediately swap the failing drive? I feel sorry for the media server. It was trying it’s best

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        Do you not like sound of the read head scraping against the platter on spin up? Weirdo… It’s a rare treat, so you have to appreciate it while it’s there.

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    Oh man, I WANT THIS THING! That is what I call a cool feature in home design. Time to think how to do it relatively cheaply in my study…

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        any idea what this is? Ive been seeing this a lot when I start up my laptop - sometimes it goes away automatically, sometimes it doesnt, but I have no idea what to even search for.

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          That’s just systemd failing to start Switch Root. Have you tried the systemctl status suggestion in the error, or reading the text file it generates?

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          search for “linux fix bad bit”, from my experience with raspberry pis i think this happens if you don’t power off the device properly. if this happens more often, it’s usually a sign that the hdd is damaged and will give in soon

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    Can a linux/systemd nerd explain what the error is? I know it’s a shutdown sequence, but I’m curious on the fault

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      It is actually a boot failure. Normally the kernel reads some config from the initrd (the bootloader loads initrd and passes it to the kernel - thanks dan) and then does a bunch of setup stuff, and then it mounts the actual root filesystem, and then switches to using that. In this case, the root filesystem has failed to mount.

      Hardware failure is most likely the cause, but misconfiguration can also make this happen. Probably hardware though.

      If its misconfiguration, an admin can reattempt to mount the root drive on /new_root, and then ctrl-d to get the init system to try again

      ELI5: couldnt open C:/ drive

      Edit: clarified what loads the initrd - as per dans comment.

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        Normally the kernel loads an initrd filesystem,

        The bootloader (GRUB) loads the initrd, not the kernel. The kernel accesses stuff from the initrd, but it’s already loaded by that point.

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        Thanks for that!

        Switching to Linux and actually being able to see real time logs made me actually curious how it works, so that’s one gear out of the machine demistified

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        Using an actual hard drive for an embedded system like this would be a failure in and of itself.

        Unless it literally has to store several hours’ worth of HD video content, no reason the entire system couldn’t fit on an SD card.

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          It’s been my experience that SD cards are almost always what causes a failure on a SBC. Given the cost of the screens, i’d probably choose something that could boot off nvme storage. Or at least tape a new, configured SD card to the case of the SBC for when this inevitably happens.