no root device found, boot has failed, sleeping forever?

[Zeiss]

I downloaded fedora 14 64 image then created a bootable flash drive and put the image on the flash drive. I rebooted and tried booting from the flash drive and that's the message I received. What do I do?

[sleepy_guy]

How did you make the flash drive bootable?

[Zeiss]

"Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.3.3"

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anyone know what to do?

[stevea]

In my experience ther is no such thing as a universal usb installer. Every system has some special issues.

Here is the Fedora approved scheme for creating a bootable installation media.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media.html

[Zeiss]

It did the same thing when using the fedora live usb creator, except the message was "boot has failed sleeping forever"

[tomislavski]

Hi,

I had a similar problem after repartitioning the disk. The grub.conf and /etc/fstab didn't have the appropriate UUIDs listed for the directory entries (/, /boot, /home, etc). The "blkid" command returns the UUID's of the devices. This was solved in the following thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=259171

[DCOH]

you can use unetbootin' to put the iso on the flash drive so that it will load and install to hard drive, if you want it to.