[Fedora-livecd-list] Direct install boot in one computer but not the other

[ToddAndMargo]

On 05/18/2015 09:19 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 05/18/2015 09:06 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> On 05/17/2015 03:53 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install FC21 directly to flash drive.
>>>
>>> So far, I can get the flash drive to boot into both my
>>> computers if I use LVM file system.  But, LVM is a pain
>>> in the neck to copy files to and from.  So, I switched
>>> to normal partition.
>>>
>>> Problem: now the thing will only boot into the computer
>>> it was created on.  The other one give me
>>>
>>>       ERROR: dracut-initqueue[303] ln failed to create
>>>       symbolic link /dev/resume already exists
>>>       (I find no such file)
>>>
>>>       /dev/sdc2 does not exist (which is my swap)
>>>
>>>       Starting Dracut emergency shell
>>>
>>> I have no idea what is going wrong.  Google is not
>>> helping either
>>>
>>> -T
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I think IO know where the error is coming from:
>> This is from my USB boot flash drive's grub.cfg:
>>
>> linux16 /vmlinuz-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 root=/dev/sdc2 ro rhgb quiet
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> How do I get it to point to whatever /dev/sdX2 the stick is actually
>> mounted on, instead of hard coding it to sdc2?
>
> Can /dev/sdc2 be changed ot the partition's UUID?
>

I went ahead and got the UUID from the rescue section,
verified is with ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid, and changed
    root=/dev/sdc2
to
    root=UUID=(UUID from the rescue section)

And guess what stinker is now working!

-T