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Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 10:49 am**

Hello All!

Yesterday I bought a used X61s, since my T61 machine uses Windows I plan on installing a flavor of Linux and I've been curious to use Fedora.

Anyways, I downloaded the Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso, and used the instructions on the Fedora homepage to create a bootable USB with the image of it. I used a Kingston 4GB stick formatted with FAT32.

It start booting but then this error comes up:

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No root device "live:/dev/disk/by-uuid/3C35-YBC3" found
Dropping to debug shell
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

I'm not sure where to go from here, this is my first time encountering this issue.

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 11:24 am**

That's a Fedora bug.

As you can see, the boot media is looking for a root device at

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live:/dev/disk/by-uuid/3C35-YBC3

i.e. a disk/partition whose UUID is 3C35-YBC3. But, following the instructions for creating a bootable USB drive, the UUID of the partition will be random, and certainly not the correct value.

The solution is to:
1. Make sure the USB boot drive has a label. Plug it into a Windows computer, and if it shows up in My Computer with a name other than "Removable Drive", it's got a label. By default the label is probably "FEDORA". If it doesn't have a label, simply rename it in My Computer to give it a label.
2. Boot from the USB drive. When it says system will start in 10 seconds, press Enter to get into boot menu, then press Tab to edit boot options. Change "UUID=3C35-YBC3" to "LABEL=FEDORA" (or whatever label the USB drive has), then boot.

http://blog.subuya.org/?p=14

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 11:45 am**

Thanks for the reply.

Before your response I used your suggestion (TAB) and the label of the USB was "LIVE", I typed it in lowercase, and it said it didn't find that source, I think is because is case sensitive right?

Anyways, what I found out is the Fedora utility tool to make the USB bootable as you said is buggy.

I downloaded UNetbootin and right now I'm on the desktop already installed. Who would've known.

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2012 12:10 pm**

All I can say is that the TAB trick worked for me. Many things in Linux world are case sensitive; this one probably is, too.
Oh well. Congratulations for your new OS!

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