Problems booting Fedora 19 with UEFI

Edward Quick edwardquick at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 28 07:46:59 UTC 2013


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> Hi,
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> I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 5721 which came with Windows 8. I 
> would like to dual boot this with Fedora but am having problems running 
> the Fedora Install. I have Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso on usb, and whenever
>  I boot with UEFI (secure on or off), the
> boot process hangs at the line, Reached target Basic System:
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> [   12.650116] localhost systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
> [   12.650553] localhost systemd[1]: Starting Paths.
> [   12.650962] localhost systemd[1]: Reached target Paths.
> [   12.651376] localhost systemd[1]: Starting Basic System.
> [   12.651829] localhost systemd[1]: Reached target Basic System.
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> And then bails out after a few minutes and starts up the Dracut Emergency Shell:
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> [   35.729286] localhost multipathd[108]: sdc: add path (uevent)
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> [   35.915042] localhost multipathd[108]: sdc: update path write_protect to '0' (uevent)
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> [   36.008982] localhost multipathd[108]: sdc: update path write_protect to '1' (uevent)
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> [  197.571596] localhost dracut-initqueue[395]: Warning: Could not boot.
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> [  197.574126] localhost dracut-initqueue[395]: Warning: /dev/root does not exist
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> [  197.578383] localhost systemd[1]: Starting Dracut Emergency Shell...
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> I have pasted the full sosreport.txt at http://pastebin.com/4stUgUDN
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> Please note that if I install in basic graphics mode, I still get the 
> same result. The only way I can get the install to work, is if I boot in
>  legacy mode. Unfortunately after doing this, I can no longer boot up 
> Windows.
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> If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd be really grateful for some help :-)
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> Many thanks,
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> Ed 		 	   		  
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Just resending to see if I can get any help. Thanks.


 		 	   		  
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