Fedora 23 Live cd/usb Dracut

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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I am trying to install Fedora 23 WS and I am running into a problem.

I have tried booting from dvd and usb with a live image. I have created the media with LiLi, Fedora USB creator, and burning the ISO to disk. Every time it boots I get dropped back to a Dracut with a message saying it couldnt find something in /etc/../../

Here is where it gets weird. This same issue happens with Fedora 23, Korora 23 and Fedora 22 ( the Fedora 22 is a disk that I have sucessfuly used in the past so I have no idea why it wont work)

Its the same error every time dropping me to dracut

I have tried UEFI and legacy - no change
I have tried adding nomodeset - no change
I have checked the hash of the downloads - they check out fine
I have DEFINITELY used the Fedora 22 dvd before without a problem.

Any ideas?

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Maybe you have soe hardware in your system that is causing the issue. Can you strip it back to a minium and disable as uch on-board stuff in BIOS?

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I sort of am already running minimum hardware - I have nothing plugged in except a keyboard, mouse, GPU and Sound card.

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It depends on what hardware you are on.

I have been struggling to get fedora 23 working properly for months on my X99 platform, eventually I went with a 4.4.5 kernel and all the problems have stopped. That being said, this was a hardware specific issue on my part (qq Asus mobo), and it may as well not work for your case.

Maybe letting people here know what hardware you are on and they could be more specific? :)

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Z77 Asus mobo with 3570k
EVGA GTX980
2x4gb Gskill 2133 ram
Samsung 840 pro ssd
Seagate hdd
WD hdd
Asus Xonar essence stx sound card
Asus dvd drive

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Z77 should have more than fine support from 4.2 kernel for starters.

About your bios config though, CSM you said you tried both enabled and disabled. How about secure boot? Have you unloaded the keys and disabling it?

On Asus motherboards, sometimes you get conflicts when secure boot is enabled, and you see USB errors that may or may not halt the boot. At least from my experience that is... :(

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I would give it a try with just a single drive plugged in. No soundcard, dvd etc. Save your BIOS config (I think you can on that board) and reset back to factory defaults. Then try again.

Failing that doe you get the same errors with other distos with recent kernels e.g. Sabayon?

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Yeah - tried with fastboot and secureboot both disabled and force legacy boot

i havent tried any other distro's yet @BGL I had wanted to stick with Fedora rather than learn another list of terminal commands :)

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can you provide more specific details on what happens?

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I just wondered if the same problem happens there - which indicates something is up with your hardware or not.

PM @LinuxMaster9 Fedora 23 is one of his favorite distro's and he might be able to help you out.

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Did you download from the Fedora website? Check the .iso md5sum, I have Fedora 23 on all my systems, and actually reinstalled it on my Laptop yesterday. No problems here.

That's the same software I used for the install. Works well.

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@Dje4321 I will take a screenshot with my phone and add it here in a bit

@Miguel_Sensacion Yes I always and only download distro ISO's from the website and I did check the md5sum

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Ensure that your motherboard firmware is fully up to date, old firmware has caused issues in the past with a few users on the forums.

what specific motherboard model is it from ASUS?

Also, try Fedora 24 alpha https://getfedora.org/workstation/prerelease/

Also, try the latest Fedora 23 community live image, its kept up to date https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/

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Its an Asus Maximus V Formula - being Z77 there hasnt been a firmware update for over a year or more but it is up to date.

Ill grab F24 in a bit and try that.

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Yeah its pretty old, worth double checking, last was 1903

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Definitely have the latest BIOS

here is a screen cap of what is happening - this happens with fedora 23, 24 and korora 23 from uefi or legacy usb or dvd boot

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Does your system have intel integrated graphics? Pull/disable the nvidia card and install via intel. Then install the propitiatory Nvidia drivers (i suggest from negativo17) then put your card back in.

The error may be from the card being unsupported by nouveau at this time, NV110 cards are work in progress https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/

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Ok I'll try that - it may be the problem as I have a GTX980 - but it also has a custom BIOS and has the crap overclocked out of it.

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Its very possible that if the custom bios is reporting the card differently that its not picking it up and supporting it properly and since the card driver is in early development is just fails.

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