Description of problem: Fresh install of F20 fell into dracut emergency shell. Message is displayed "You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB stick or /boot after mounting them". I tried to manually mount a fat-format USB stick. The mount failed with message "unknown filesystem type vfat". The initramfs of the F20 fresh install was automatically created with the dracut default "hostonly". I confirmed on a second PC that the mount failure was due to the absence in the initramfs of the fat and vfat drivers. This problem may also exist for release upgrades via fedup. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Whenever boot falls into a dracut emergency shell, if the initramfs was generated with the dracut default "hostonly" option, a manual mount of a fat-format usb stick will fail with the message "unknown filesystem type vfat" Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert a fat-format USB stick in PC 2. edit grub "linux" command line to a nonexistent UUID for root 3. when dracut emergency shell is entered, try to manually mount the USB stick Actual results: mount fails with message "unkonown filesystem type vfat Expected results: mount succeeds Additional info:
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