Bug 700426

Summary: Impossible to boot F15 beta on a DELL 6930p
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ben Stokes <ben>
Component: dracutAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: harald, jonathan
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Description Ben Stokes 2011-04-28 11:32:02 UTC
Created attachment 495507 [details]
Output of dmsetup ls --tree

Description of problem:
Boot from F15 beta and get dumped to a "dracut" shell instead of booting to Gnome.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F15 Beta

How reproducible:
Happens every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Dump the image of Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso to a usb stick a boot it on a DELL 6930p laptop. 
2. Boot and select the USB hard drive option
  
Actual results:
Plymouth shows about 70% progress booting the system. Then you are dropped to a dracut shell with some errors.
mkdir: cannot create directory '/run': File exists

Dropping to debug shell

sh: can't access tty: job control turned off 

Expected results:
It should boot into Gnome

Additional info:
In all cases, the following should be mentioned and attached to your bug report:

The exact kernel command-line used:
/ubnkern initrd=/ubninit root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-Live-Deskt rootfstype=auto ro liveimg rdshell rdinitdebug rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0

A copy of your disk partition information from /etc/fstab
Not applicable. The file was missing

More attachments will be added to the bugreport in a second

Comment 1 Ben Stokes 2011-04-28 11:32:33 UTC
Created attachment 495508 [details]
output of dmesg

Comment 2 Ben Stokes 2011-04-28 11:32:58 UTC
Created attachment 495509 [details]
output of blkid

Comment 3 Ben Stokes 2011-04-28 11:33:23 UTC
Created attachment 495510 [details]
output of blkid -o udev

Comment 4 Ben Stokes 2011-04-28 11:34:57 UTC
Exact same thing happens on my Samsung NC210 netbook, I am not attaching the logs here unless they are specially requested.

Comment 5 Harald Hoyer 2011-04-28 11:41:36 UTC
Did you use "livecd-iso-to-disk" to create the USB stick?

The partition of the USB stick has to be labeled like you specified with CDLABEL=<label>.

Comment 6 Ben Stokes 2011-04-28 14:52:14 UTC
I used unetbootin to create the USB stick. 

Let me try with livecd-iso-to-disk and report back here with the result.

Comment 7 Ben Stokes 2011-05-03 19:49:20 UTC
I copied the image on to a spare CDR and then I was able to boot it (using failsafe graphics mode). 

Verdict: The problem is unetbootin. This did work fine on older versions of Fedora though. It would be *nice* if it continued to work as expected but I suppose it isn't a bug with the fedora project.