Can't boot Live from USB - unknown fs type, can't mount root

[Jatin K]

On Monday 21 October 2013 11:02 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>
>      Hello,
>
>   I downloaded Fedora 19 Live CD and copied it to a USB flash drive 
> via dd. When I try to boot from it on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430s, I do 
> get a screen that says that Fedora Live CD is going to load, but then 
> it fails. The first error message I see is:
>
>   kernel: SQUASHFS error: unable to read id index table
>
>   Then, some lines later, I get several lines that say:
>
>   dracut-mount[361]: mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
>
>   and then:
>
>   dracut-mount[361]: Warning: Can't mount root file system
>
>   And then I seem to be in a "dracut emergency shell"
>
>   Any ideas? Thanks!
>
>      Best,
>      Oliver

if you have another FC box try following and user to create live USB-stick

yum install -y liveusb-creator



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