Direct install boot in one computer but not the other

[ToddAndMargo]

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

[ToddAndMargo]

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?

Many thanks,
-T

[ToddAndMargo]

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

My live USB looks like this:
initrdefi /syslinux/initrd0.img

[ToddAndMargo]

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?

[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