Bug 1297231 (danleff)

> rescue fails with the same error.

Can you describe what you tried to boot in rescue mode and what the error looked like?

Sure, rescue via the grub menu.

after removing rhgb and quiet from the kernel parameters, I get;

systemd [1] failed to execute /sbin/init, giving up: Input/output error

This looks like filesystem corruption. A missing library generates a different error (error while loading shared libraries: ...: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), as does a truncated executable (segmentation fault).

You should check your root filesystem. http://k.japko.eu/fedora-fsck-root.html has some nice instructions.

I had checked the filesystem with Gparted from Puppy Linux and it showed no problems. Let me look at a few more things per your link and respond. The filesystem was fine before the upgrade, but I wonder if there is a grub issue and I will look at that as well.

Let me know if I should continue this inquiry or if this is more appropriate for the forums (if this does not look like a problem that is appropriate for this forum).

A file system check checks file system metadata. It does not check if there are bad sectors, etc. It would be probably best to start a rescue system (e.g. the one you used for fsck), and try to execute /sbin/init from there. If there's an fs error, it'll tell you.

I have unable to resolve this issue and all rescue system attempts have failed to get into the root filesystem. 

Looks like I will need to start from scratch and reinstall Fedora from scratch. This is an ssd disk that I have been using for about I year and I need a working system. 

Thanks for your help.

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