Re: Create virt F20 on new physical /dev/sda -> OK; boot live > F20 on /dev/sda now fails

[Philip Rhoades]

Tim,


>  Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 13:35:38 +0930
>  From: Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au&gt;
>  To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  Subject: Re: Create virt F20 on new physical /dev/sda -> OK; boot live
>  	F20	on /dev/sda now fails
>  Message-ID: <1401509138.1661.5.camel(a)fluffy.lan.cameratim.com&gt;
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>  
>  On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 11:40 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > but now for going from F19 to F20 and booting on the new F20 the
> > process stops at:
> > 
> > [OK] Reached target Paths
> > [OK] Reached target Basic System
>  
>  I encountered the same stalling point, but with an ordinary install.
>  
>  Out of the two or three recent bouts of install grief, this one was due
>  to the device numbering.  During install, thanks to booting from a DVD,
>  the install thought that the system root was /dev/sde instead
>  of /dev/sda, and configured things like that.  Check your kernel line 
>  in
>  the boot menu for the wrong device name, and either correct it, or use
>  the UUID of the drive partition, instead.
>  
>  Oddly enough the next entry in my grub.cfg file was for a recovery boot
>  mode, and that one had used the UUID, instead of the wrong device name.
>  
>  I'm not impressed with the current install routine, and that was just
>  one of the things about it that annoyed me. 

Ah . . well spotted - I should have seen that - thanks!


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> against tyranny, 
>  not
>  a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. 

A great (but sad) sig!

Regards,

Phil.
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