[ale] What is grub > and I Killed Access to Desktop

[Marc Ferguson]

I downloaded the minimal install (netinstall) ISO to a CD-R for Fedora 18.
I booted my machine and it starts the "plymouth boot screen" (whatever that
is), reaches the "target basic system" and then dumps me into emergency
mode with the following error:

dracut-initqueue[303]: Warning: Could not boot.
dracut-initqueue[303]: Warning: /dev/root does not exist

I'm scouring the web now to see what this means. It looks like some folks
got it during beta. I'm also downloading the full DVD ISO to see if that
makes a difference. I crossed my fingers while booting the CD-ROM, it can
be a bit temperamental.


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Will do Jack. Thanks.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Jack Schneider <puck at dp-indexing.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:30:11 -0500
>> Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I really screwed the pooch on this one. I have two issues: 1) how to
>> > use GRUB recovery console and 2) non-bootable LiveUSB. So; here's my
>> > first issue. I have two hard drives and my original setup was:
>> >
>> > * sda1 - windows (marked as boot)
>> > * sda2 - /boot
>> > * sda3 - lvm (fedora)
>> > * sdb1 - data
>> >
>> > With the release of Fedora 18 I figured I'll finally remove my Windows
>> > partition and turn it into a home directory. I fire up gparted and do
>> > just that. I'm not familiar with UUID so I simply changed the "label"
>> > to "home." I then use rsync to copy my existing /home directory into
>> > the new partition. All seems well...
>> >
>> > I reboot and after GRUB selects the latest instance of Fedora 17 I'm
>> > sent to some sort of recovery mode. I can only log in as root. My
>> > data partition is still mounted, but my newly created home partition
>> > no longer shows any data in it. I wonder if it has something to do
>> > with me changing it from NTFS to ext4.
>> >
>> > Either way I'm thinking that my GRUB is pointing to the wrong
>> > partition and stupidly run "grub install /dev/sda1". Now when I
>> > reboot and GRUB fires it immediately goes into a GRUB recovery
>> > console and I'm completely lost at this point.
>> >
>> > At this point I feel I've gone way down into the rabbit hole. I dont'
>> > mind losing the home directories since my data partition is still
>> > functioning. I want to just start fresh and do a clean install of
>> > Fedora 18. My main beef is I can't boot from the newly created Fedora
>> > 18 LiveUSB. It works on my laptop, but not on my desktop. When in
>> > GRUB recovery I ran "grub> usb" and it's supposed to show any USB's
>> > plugged in, but nothing shows up.
>> >
>> Hi, Marc
>>
>> Try  pmagic_2012_12_25,  Free-be! Runs in memory! More tools than ever
>> needed. Looks like Gentoo derivative.  Should allow you to rebuild
>> booting and anything else!.
>>
>> Jack
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