the tragedy of Fedora Live USB conversion and what we can do about it

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Kamil Paral wrote:

> 3. Third, if everything goes wrong and you end up in a dracut shell, could we at least advise our users what went wrong and what to do with it? Because the current output is very scary and very hard to decipher by a general user:
> http://www.zive.cz/uploadedfiles/38598240.png
> So what if we detected that we failed to find a partition having "Fedora-Live" in its name (thus most probably an incorrectly created LiveUSB), and in that case printed out something like this?
>
> *******************************************************************************
> * It seems Fedora Live image could not have been accessed. This often happens *
> * when Live USB media is incorrectly created by a third-party USB installer.  *
> * Please refer to official documentation on fedoraproject.org for proper      *

Better yet:
* Get liveusb-creator at https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/            *

> * instructions.                                                               *
> *******************************************************************************

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