On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Craig Goodyear <cjhs22a(a)cableone.net> wrote:
On 07/01/2015 09:45 AM, Craig Goodyear wrote:
>
> I have done a fresh install of Fedora 22 on the same computer 4 times.
> Each time, after using the system from 1 day to 3 days and having
> successfully rebooted several times, a reboot results in being started
> in emergency mode. This computer was running Fedora 21 since its release
> without any problems. I am using an ASUS P9X79 Deluxe motherboard.
>
> I have tried installing to a new hard disk. I have tried a different
> video card. I have run fsck on the hard disk after booting a live image.
> No errors were found. Nothing I have tried has changed the result.
>
To close this thread. I think I have found the problem. Upon inspecting the
BIOS settings, I found that I had not completely disabled UEFI support.
This is sub-optimal, and is basically used as a last ditch effort.
There is no actual way to disable UEFI, what actually happens, this
setting enables a compatibility support module that presents a
faux-BIOS to the OS to bridge between the OS and UEFI. So UEFI isn't
actually disabled, you've just added another layer.
What's really needed are logs, to troubleshoot why there's a boot
failure. What's supposed to happen if you're dropped to emergency mode
by dracut, is you get an rdsosreport.txt produced that typically
contains a bunch of information useful for troubleshooting.
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Chris Murphy