Description of problem: used Fedora LiveUSB Creator and Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-Live.iso to make a bootable USB. Ordinary boot appears to fail, with keyboard becoming partially unresponsive (Caps lock unresponsive, Cntl-Alt-Delete works for reboot) Simple graphics boot has the 3 color progress bar advance most of the way to the right. But then screen blanks with message: no root device found Boot has failed, sleeping forever How do I get troubleshoot this system and get it to boot? The last kernel to boot successfully on this hardware is: Linux amd.home 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 6 18:09:49 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
changing the boot options to root=live:LABEL=FEDORA (from the USB's UUID) does not seem to help.
Low graphics boot without quiet rhgb proceeds all the way to Starting HAL daemon retrigger failed udev events Adding udev persistent rules Enabling BLuetooth devices: Starting sendmail: Starting sm-client: Starting abrt daemon: eth0: no IPv6 routers present after a pause, the screen goes blank and the keyboard is unresponsive.
(In reply to comment #2) This was using a CD burnt with Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-Live.iso
holding shift down and entering 'linux0' at boot also fails. (Text output scrolls past then screen goes blank and keyboard is unresponsive.)
It appears similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527514 for Fedora 12. In my case, editing the GRUB command line, replacing root=live:UUID... by root=live:/dev/sdb1 (which is the usb partition where the image is) is a successful workaround. Note, I have a i915 chipset, just like in the F12 bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527514.
How did you make the usb? In Fedora 13? Did you use Fedora LiveUSBCreator version 3.9.2.1.fc13 ? I ask because I think I tried this without success. Then I burned the CD but that didn't help either.
I used liveusb-creator-3.9.2-1.fc12.noarch (note that, for some reason, the version reported by the tool is different: $ liveusb-creator --version 3.7.3 ) Make sure you specify the right /dev/sdXn device and partition to point to the USB key.
I'm experiencing this too; it's a pity because I was planning to move away from Ubuntu and to Fedora. I've tried this: http://www.linuxreaders.com/2010/05/26/fc-13-12-live-cd-boot-error-no-root-device-found-fix/, but it didn't work.
I've been happy with RedHat/Fedora for many years. in the absence of advice from experts, I'd recommend: Plan A: Try the F14 DVD or CD install or live CD. Plan B: Hold off on F14 for now. Install with F13 which works, and use yum upgrade to keep current until F15 comes out. Warning: I found the later F13 kernels troublesome for my videocards, so if you have a system which boots before but not after upgrade to 2.6.34 or 2.6.35 kernels, keep the F13original kernel. But 2.6.33 and 2.6.36++ work for me. Unfortunately rumors are that 2.6.36 won't be in the F14 updates.
#8 (Matteo Settenvini) and #9 (Phil V): Can you comment on whether the workaround in comment #5 is working for you? Any error message to report? "In my case, editing the GRUB command line, replacing root=live:UUID... by root=live:/dev/sdb1 (which is the usb partition where the image is) is a successful workaround."
#10: I was finally able to boot it in low-graphics mode (unrelated issue with my ATI card, I think - but it's strange because using the opensource ati drivers in Ubuntu don't give me any problem), and specifying root=/dev/sr0. It was a little bit difficult to guess, anyway.
Same problem. Created a live-usb with live-usb-creator and F14-64 live cd on an F14 system. Then tried to use the live-usb to install to a 5 harddrive desktop with a one year old Gigabyte motherboard. Got the: "no root device found Boot has failed, sleeping forever" a few seconds into the boot. #5: "In my case, editing the GRUB command line, replacing root=live:UUID... by root=live:/dev/sdb1 (which is the usb partition where the image is) is a successful workaround." solved this for me, with the modification that the live-usb was on sdf1 for me.
Got the same problem on a new HP laptop so it seems to be hardware independent. Out of curiosity, is this related to the live-cd (meaning Fedora is stuck with it until that iso is deprecated) or can it be live-usb-creator?
Was this problem resolved? I'm seeing this same problem with current (fully updated as of 3rd of March 2011) Fedora 14 running livecd-creator generating f14 livecd image..
I've opened a new bug about my problem with livecd-creator here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681999
I did not find a way to boot Fedora 14 successfully. I am able to boot gfx_test_week_20110221_x86-64.iso but: only with the low quality graphics 'vesa' driver. on the other hand, I reported in bug 679674 that booting with 'nomodeset drm.debug=0x04' results in: No root device found No root device found Dropping to debug shell. sh: can't access tty; job control turned off dracut:/#"
I've got the same error with pm-test-day-20110324.iso
In my case the problem is buggy virtual cdrom drive firmware, ie. bad "READ TOC" implementation, so udev fails to identify the CD and mount root. udev version from el6 (udev-147-2.35.el6) works OK, and udev from f14 fails. So clearly something got broken in udev. Earlier versions were able to workaround the issue of buggy cdrom drive. Patch should be added to udev to workaround the issue. More info from: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681999
I get "No root device found", "sleeping forever" trying to boot Fedora 14 kernel/initramfs, version 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64. Disabled all boot devices at the BIOS level, other than the disk. (Happens to be Intel 82801 SATA RAID Controller.) Able to boot with Fedora 13 kernel/initramfs, and everything else Fedora 14. Upgraded from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 using preupgrade utility. Any additional info needed?
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