Boot halts on "Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes"

Asked Mar 02 '21 at 10:26

Active Mar 02 '21 at 11:23

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On my RPi Zero W I had a kernel panic issue

Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,6)

However now it halts while booting and the last line says

Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes.

I checked the filesystem with fsck and it seems ok. What can I do to boot succesfully?

Edit: I should clarify that I don't have NOOBS installed, just Raspberry Pi OS

edited Mar 02 '21 at 11:23

asked Mar 02 '21 at 10:26

Matipolit

I fall to understand why anyone persists in trying to boot NOOBS. Install Raspberry Pi OS – Milliways Mar 02 '21 at 10:46
@Milliways no NOOBS, I'll clarify it in the post – Matipolit Mar 02 '21 at 10:48
If you are running Raspberry Pi OS you could not possibly get that error. – Milliways Mar 02 '21 at 10:50
I used the official imaging tool from https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/ and installed Raspberry Pi OS Lite, is that NOOBS? – Matipolit Mar 02 '21 at 11:18
@Milliways It better be possible because I'm getting the same error on a new SD card formatted using the Raspberry Pi Imager in a RPi 3+. It worked on second boot though. – thordarson May 03 '21 at 16:10

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