On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Adam Williamson wrote:
You can't do a text install from a live image, but you can from DVD or net inst. We'd need the x logs to know what was going on with x startup.
Using the netinstall's isolinux/ vmlinuz,initrd and pxelinux.cfg file, the machine (physical but also VMs on my laptop) start with: [ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. [ OK ] Reached target Paths. [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. It then waits a _long_ time and I see: [ <timestamp>] dracut-initqueue[pid]: Warning: Could not boot. [ OK ] Strated Show Plymouth Boot Screen. [ OK ] Reached target Paths. [ OK ] Reacdhed target Basic System. [ <timestamp>] dracut-initqueue[pid]: Warning: Could not boot. [ <timestamp>] dracut-initqueue[pid]: Warning: /dev/root does not exit and then falls into a dracut shell Looking at the report it boots a lot of things, then throws: systemd: Failed to add job sys-kernel-config.mount/start, ignoring: Invalid argument. systemd: Reloading. systemd: Failed to add job sys-kernel-config.mount/start, ignoring: Invalid argument. multimathd[71]: vda: add path (uevent) multimathd[71]: vda: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec multimathd[71]: vda: failed to get path uid multimathd[71]: uevent trigger error dracut-initqueue[474]: Warning: Could not boot. dracut-initqueue[474]: Warning: /dev/rot does not exist. Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct