Dear Malcolm, very likely You face a Windows-10 specific problem. Windows-10 attempts to implement a quick start procedure by avoiding a full shutdown, instead using a predefined intermediate state stored on the swap disk (hibernation). Just try the command from the web page https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491003.aspx from one of the Windows-10 command line options (cmd.exe, execute command Win-Key-Letter-R-Key, Powershell et. al.) The -f parameter ist critical - pardon, I cannot send You the commandline, because the virus filter thinks, that I'm sending a virus, if I use the program name and the parameter... Any Windows boot process will take significantly more time after that, but the Linux boot process will succeed... Yours sincerely Christoph-Erdmann Pfeiler Am 20.02.2017 um 10:03 schrieb MAH Maccallum: > My laptop is set up to dual boot Windows 10 and SL7. I had > backed up all my Linux files and made a Windows 7 style > backup of the Windows partition. Then I accidentally exited > Windows by 'restart' rather than 'shut down'. The result is I > cannot reboot the Linux. I get my usual grub menu but trying > to start Linux from it gets (after a couple of warnings which are the > same I had before): > Welcome to emergency mode!..... > and trying either of the suggested 'systemctl reboot' or > 'systemctl default' leads to a message > Error getting authority: Error initialising authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error quark,1) > > I can boot from a Live USB and mount the linux partitions. I am pretty > confident therefore that no data has been lost from them. > > Is there a way to recover short of wiping the disk and reinstalling > from the beginning? > > Malcolm MacCallum > -- Christoph-Erdmann Pfeiler Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Steinbuch Centre for Computing Abteilung Informationsdienste und Datenmanagement Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Bundesrepublik Deutschland Tel: +49-721-608-24922, Fax: +49-721-608-24972 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.scc.kit.edu KIT – Universität des Landes Baden-Württemberg und nationales Forschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Das KIT ist seit 2010 als familiengerechte Hochschule zertifiziert.