EXT4-fs error, cannot read block bitmap. What should I do?

[Gianni]

Hi guys, so somehow I can’t start my Qubes OS because of this error. According to a gentleman it’s “a problem with ext4 filesystem on [my] /boot partition /dev/sdb2…somehow it got corrupted”

Qubes_dom0-root and other key files don't exist error after trying to EFI partition

Hi disp6252, LOL thanks for the insights, I’ve been asked to insert my disk password. But after that I get another error, i.e. this one [photo_2023-05-15_23-48-56] And strangely I cannot even type commands I guess we’re almost there? Anyway really, if you’ve more important things to do please just put this aside for now. Answer me back maybe when you’ve more time, like 3 days or 14 days later whenever you’ve more time

I tried the solutions he reccomended, i.e.

You can boot from Qubes OS installer USB and try to fix it from there:
fsck -f /dev/sdb2
If it won’t work then try:
e2fsck -p -f /dev/sdb2

However, I haven’t got the problem solved

Can I know what should I do now? I’m really, really frustrated, coz I just wanted to start my Qubes OS but had to solve several problems one after the other. And now I’m feeling like I might as well re-stall Qubes OS…

Thanks for your time and reading!

[disp6252]

Try to mount this partition and check the files on it:

mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/boot
ls -la /mnt/boot

This is a general Linux problem and not really related to Qubes so it’d be faster to find help on stackexchange/superuser/reddit/etc.