Fix Fedora 20: “Warning could not boot”

Posted by samtuke on Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 0

So you’re in front of your shiny new laptop / netbook/ ultrabook / toaster, you’ve put Fedora 20 on a USB stick, filled up the progress guitar pick, only to be dropped to an emergency shell with errors like:

dracut-initqueue[398]: Warning: Could not boot. dracut-initqueue[398]: Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1 does not exist Starting Dracut Emergency Shell... Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1 does not exist Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist

This dispiriting problem was solved in our case by simply typing the following at the dracut prompt:

exit

Give it a try, and if that fails, try using the direct write (dd) method of live USB creation.