Recently came across this faulty SSD Optimization article online that basically asked to add some argumetns for each of the storage devices in the /etc/fstab.
The additional arguments being the noatime,nodiratime,defaults, and mode.
The article erroneously directed to put all the aruguments altogether without any delimeters.
This completely wrecked the boot process. After the HDD encryption was unlocked, it simply would not boot from the storage devices, since the mount flags were faulty.
The fix is to drop into the boot repair command line through advanced boot options and then edit the /etc/fstab file.
It wasn’t that simple though, since the /etc/fstab file was essentially corrupted because of the wrong boot flags argument(s), and so the fstab was loaded as read-only only.
To be able to write changes to the fstab after adding ’,’s between all the arguments, the storages have to be unmounted. To unmount storages -
mount -n -o remount /
But if the fstab is corrupted (which in our case it was) you have to specify the storages -
mount -n -o remount /dev/sda /
(replacing /dev/sda between sda1to however many partitions exist on the system for eg. sda4).
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