Created attachment 632041 [details] screenshot Description of problem: I transfer F18 beta TC6 CD to USB flash disk with Live USB creator. Resulting USB fails to boot with error "/dev/root does not exist" How reproducible: Always.
(This bug was reported as a new bug here as requested on bug 855849.) Please report more details, such as exactly which iso you downloaded and how you ran the creator tool. From the rescue prompt please also provide the output of ls -lR /dev/disk/* cat /proc/cmdline
Downloaded iso resides at URL: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-TC6/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-Beta-TC6-x86_64-netinst.iso I used latest windows version of Live USB creator - created a USB image from downloaded iso with 0 persistent storage. output of ls -lR /dev/disk/*: /dev/disk/by-id: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 9 Oct 24 10:23 ata-PLDS_DVD+_-RW_DU-8A3S_106020477464 -> ../../sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 9 Oct 24 10:23 ata-WDC_WD2500BEKT-75PVMT0_WD-WXK1A51M6399 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 ata-WDC_WD2500BEKT-75PVMT0_WD-WXK1A51M6399-part1 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 ata-WDC_WD2500BEKT-75PVMT0_WD-WXK1A51M6399-part2 -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 9 Oct 24 10:23 usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_Micro_32474118DB1238E6-0:0 -> ../../sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_Micro_32474118DB1238E6-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 9 Oct 24 10:23 wwn-0x50014ee6016355af -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 wwn-0x50014ee6016355af-part1 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 wwn-0x50014ee6016355af-part2 -> ../../sda2 /dev/disk/by-label: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 BDEDrive -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 9 Oct 24 10:23 Konica\x20Minolta -> ../../sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 LIVE -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 OSDisk -> ../../sda1 /dev/disk/by-path: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 9 Oct 24 10:23 pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sdb1 /dev/disk/by-uuid: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 1436FC7836FC5C64 -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 1CDB-9EE2 -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 9 Oct 24 10:23 2004-04-05-16-23-00-00 -> ../../sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 10 Oct 24 10:23 4A0AFBCA0AFBB0D5 -> ../../sda1 /proc/cmdline: initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Fedora\x2018-Beta-TC6\x20x86_64 quiet rd.live.check BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
So the problem is that "Live USB creator" created a USB device with file system label "LIVE" but a boot loader configuration that looked for "Fedora 18-Beta-TC6 x86_64". What exact package version of "Live USB creator" do you use? Which options do you use? Have you tried telling it to format the device?
I don't think liveusb-creator can handle anything other than the livecds. you are trying to write a netinst.iso so you should use dd or livecd-iso-to-disk
Fixed in https://github.com/lmacken/liveusb-creator/commit/10f4fb3b82e081b835e268713f76c55026bb131f
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
This should be resolved in the latest version of the liveusb-creator. Please re-open this bug if you encounter this issue again, thanks.