> From: tchollingswo...@gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 01:40:29 -0700
> Subject: Re: Problems booting Fedora 19 with UEFI
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
>
> 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 <edwardqu...@hotmail.com> 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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