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> From: tchollingsworth@xxxxxxxxx > Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 01:40:29 -0700 > Subject: Re: Problems booting Fedora 19 with UEFI > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Hi! > > Sorry for the lack of response; UEFI gives *all of us* nothing but grief. ;-) > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Edward Quick <edwardquick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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: > <snip output> > > > [ 197.574126] localhost dracut-initqueue[395]: Warning: /dev/root does not exist > > Hmm, so the boot process can't find the root image on the USB drive. > This could be because whatever made the USB drive didn't set the > kernel command line arguments properly. > > How did you make the USB drive? With liveusb-creator, unetbootin, dd, > or something else? > > If it was anything but liveusb-creator, it might not have done the > necessary magic to make UEFI boot work properly. Grab it from > https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ and try remaking the USB > drive with it, and see if it works. > > > 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. > > > > If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd be really grateful for some help :-) > > -T.C. > -- Thank you TC, that was spot on! I was trying to install fedora with a usb created from unetbootin. The usb created by liveusb-creator booted fine though and now I can see Windows in the grub menu. Oddly (and not a major issue), I can only boot Windows if secure mode is off. Fedora boots fine if secure mode is on or off. |
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