Boots to Emergency Mode
Prevention
Always "nicely" power down your Storm MSTK. This means to do one of the following:
1. From a terminal prompt, Just type "shutdown." The terminal will schedule a shutdown. To shutdown the computer instantly, you can use the "shutdown -h now" command.
The correct syntax for the shutdown command is "shutdown [OPTION] [TIME] [MESSAGE]" In many Linux distros the Sudo command is required, but in Kali it is not necessary.
2. On the upper Right-Hand corner of the screen, go to Power Symbol-->Power Symbol-->Shut Down
Repair
If your Storm is booting to "Emergency Mode this is probably due to pulling the power while the OS is writing to the SD card (Green led flashing still while you unplug Storm) or by updating the Storm OS online instead of going to the Storm Resource Center.
If the unit lost power during a write operation this will fix it:
If an update was performed and now emergency mode…the Micro SD card will have to be reimaged. See the Storm Resource Center for instructions.
Always "nicely" power down your Storm MSTK. This means to do one of the following:
1. From a terminal prompt, Just type "shutdown." The terminal will schedule a shutdown. To shutdown the computer instantly, you can use the "shutdown -h now" command.
The correct syntax for the shutdown command is "shutdown [OPTION] [TIME] [MESSAGE]" In many Linux distros the Sudo command is required, but in Kali it is not necessary.
2. On the upper Right-Hand corner of the screen, go to Power Symbol-->Power Symbol-->Shut Down
Repair
If your Storm is booting to "Emergency Mode this is probably due to pulling the power while the OS is writing to the SD card (Green led flashing still while you unplug Storm) or by updating the Storm OS online instead of going to the Storm Resource Center.
If the unit lost power during a write operation this will fix it:
- Remove MicroSD card from the Storm device (See Storm Resource Center for details)
- Insert the MicroSD card into a suitable reader that is connected to another computer running a Linux file system (e.g Ubuntu).
- Open terminal type “sudo fdisk -l” this will list your attached disks. The SD Card should be “Disk /dev/sdb: 59.5 GiB….” Unless you have a bigger card.
- It has two partitions “/dev/sdb1 and “/dev/sdb2”. You will want to unmount these then do a file system check. Say yes to prompts until done
- sudo umount /dev/sdb1
- sudo umount /dev/sdb2
- sudo fsck /dev/sdb1
- sudofsck /dev/sdb2
- “sudo fsck /dev/sdb1”
If an update was performed and now emergency mode…the Micro SD card will have to be reimaged. See the Storm Resource Center for instructions.