Boot fails with message "the root account is locked", "Not all disks have been found"

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I seem to have a recurring issue where, on reboot after updates install, F43 Workstation does not boot properly. It displays the following text:

Warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/c75d87c1-261f-44e1-9a7d-f11b69b5c3c4 does not exist
Generating "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt"

Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue.
Type "journalctl" to view system logs.
You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB stick or /boot after mounting them and attach it to a bug report.

Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
See sulogin(8) man page for more details.

Press Enter to continue.

At this point, it will not accept any command except pressing Enter, after which:

[426.263256] dracut-initqueue [4951]: Warning: Not all disks have been found.
[426.263256] dracut-initqueue [4951]: Warning: You might want to regenerate your initramfs.

After this, the system freezes, accepts no commands until I manually power it down with a physical button.

Unfortunately, I am unable to even begin to understand what is going on, because I simply do not have enough background knowledge. I can “get” frontend dev stuff, mostly, but not things like these. I cannot really understand the tips written on the screen (I should mount a USB stick while on this screen?.. what are initramfs and how do I regenerate them?.. I don’t even know the appropriate commands for the shell while in /boot… etc). I took a look at the sulogin(8) man page, but it’s all alienspeak to me.

What do?

SYSTEM INFO FPASTE:

lunatico@fedora:~$ fpaste --sysinfo --printonly
Gathering system info .....................................
=== fpaste 0.5.0.0 System Information ===
* OS Release (cat /etc/*-release | uniq):
     Fedora release 43 (Forty Three)
     NAME="Fedora Linux"
     VERSION="43 (Workstation Edition)"
     RELEASE_TYPE=stable
     ID=fedora
     VERSION_ID=43
     VERSION_CODENAME=""
     PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)"
     ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
     LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
     CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43"
     DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
     HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
     DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f43/"
     SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
     BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
     REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
     REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=43
     REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
     REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=43
     SUPPORT_END=2026-12-02
     VARIANT="Workstation Edition"
     VARIANT_ID=workstation
     Fedora release 43 (Forty Three)

* CPU Model (grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: '{print $2}' | uniq -c |
     sed -re 's/^ +//' ):
     16  AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 w/ Radeon 880M

* 64-bit Support (grep -q ' lm ' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
     Yes

* Hardware Virtualization Support (grep -Eq '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
     Yes

* Kernel (uname -r):
     6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64

* Kernel cmdline (cat /proc/cmdline):
     BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 root=UUID=c75d87c1-261f-44e1-9a7d-f11b69b5c3c4 ro rootflags=subvol=root rd.luks.uuid=luks-809d8e12-998d-4bfc-bd25-68f7c54dcf47 rhgb quiet

* Desktop(s) Running (ps -eo comm= | grep -E '(gnome-session|startkde|startactive|xfce.?-session|fluxbox|blackbox|hackedbox|ratpoison|enlightenment|icewm-session|od-session|wmaker|wmx|openbox-lxde|openbox-gnome-session|openbox-kde-session|mwm|e16|fvwm|xmonad|sugar-session|mate-session|lxqt-session|cinnamon|lxdm-session|awesome|phosh|sway|Hyperland)' ):
     gnome-session-i
     gnome-session-c
     gnome-session-s

* Desktop(s) Installed (ls -m /usr/share/{xsessions,wayland-sessions}/ | sed 's/\.desktop//g' ):
     /usr/share/wayland-sessions/:
     gnome-classic, gnome-classic-wayland, gnome,
     gnome-wayland

     /usr/share/xsessions/:

* Session Type (env | grep 'XDG_SESSION_TYPE' | sed 's/.*=//' ):
     wayland

* SELinux Status (sestatus):
     SELinux status:                 enabled
     SELinuxfs mount:                /sys/fs/selinux
     SELinux root directory:         /etc/selinux
     Loaded policy name:             targeted
     Current mode:                   enforcing
     Mode from config file:          enforcing
     Policy MLS status:              enabled
     Policy deny_unknown status:     allowed
     Memory protection checking:     actual (secure)
     Max kernel policy version:      35

* SELinux Errors (selinuxenabled && journalctl --no-hostname --since yesterday |grep avc: | grep -Eo comm="[^ ]+" | sort |uniq -c |sort -rn):
        1038 comm="bwrap"
         211 comm="firefox"
           6 comm="glxtest"
           3 comm="blocking-2"
           1 comm="systemd-hostnam"

* Memory usage (free -hm):
                    total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
     Mem:            30Gi       9,3Gi        17Gi       101Mi       4,4Gi        21Gi
     Swap:          8,0Gi          0B       8,0Gi

* ZRAM usage (zramctl --output-all):
     NAME       DISKSIZE DATA COMPR ALGORITHM STREAMS ZERO-PAGES TOTAL MEM-LIMIT MEM-USED MIGRATED COMP-RATIO MOUNTPOINT
     /dev/zram0       8G   4K   80B lzo-rle                    0   12K        0B      12K       0B     0,3333 [SWAP]

* Load average (uptime):
      16:10:28 up 40 min,  2 users,  load average: 0,33, 0,28, 0,26

* block devices (lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,FSUSE%,MOUNTPOINT,UUID,MIN-IO,SCHED,DISC-GRAN,MODEL):
     NAME                                          FSTYPE        SIZE FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT UUID                                 MIN-IO SCHED DISC-GRAN MODEL
     zram0                                         swap            8G        [SWAP]     2d6eb2eb-c008-49ff-be60-3a2b0b487592   4096              4K
     nvme0n1                                                   476,9G                                                           512 none       512B Micron MTFDKBA512TGD-2BK15ABLT
     ├─nvme0n1p1                                   vfat          600M     3% /boot/efi  84E4-63FB                               512 none       512B
     ├─nvme0n1p2                                   ext4            2G    29% /boot      fe678423-de67-48d3-ab27-547e6ec0dfef    512 none       512B
     └─nvme0n1p3                                   crypto_LUKS 474,4G                   809d8e12-998d-4bfc-bd25-68f7c54dcf47    512 none       512B
       └─luks-809d8e12-998d-4bfc-bd25-68f7c54dcf47 btrfs       474,3G    24% /home      c75d87c1-261f-44e1-9a7d-f11b69b5c3c4    512            512B


* Xorg errors (without results: "grep '^\[.*(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d ':' -f 2- "):
     N/A

* Last few reboots (last -x -n10 reboot runlevel):
     reboot   system boot  6.17.7-300.fc43* Sun Nov  9 15:30   still running
     reboot   system boot  6.17.7-300.fc43* Sun Nov  9 13:44 - 15:18  (01:33)

     wtmp begins Mon Nov  3 07:11:23 2025

* EFI boot manager output (efibootmgr -v):
     BootCurrent: 0000
     Timeout: 0 seconds
     BootOrder: 0000,0001,0010,0011,0012,0013,0014,0015,0016,0017,001A,001C,0020,001E,001D,001F,0021,0022,0023,0024,0025
     Boot0000* Fedora   HD(1,GPT,ab18174c-4a76-40dc-9f1f-80a4268822d4,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi
           dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 12 00 00 00 00 00 4c 17 18 ab 76 4a dc 40 9f 1f 80 a4 26 88 22 d4 02 02 / 04 04 34 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 66 00 65 00 64 00 6f 00 72 00 61 00 5c 00 73 00 68 00 69 00 6d 00 78 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager     HD(1,GPT,ea4b0e99-f6d3-4f6a-a42a-ab1eb9702af1,0x800,0x82000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi57494e444f5753000100000088000000780000004200430044004f0042004a004500430054003d007b00390064006500610038003600320063002d0035006300640064002d0034006500370030002d0061006300630031002d006600330032006200330034003400640034003700390035007d00000034000100000010000000040000007fff0400
           dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 08 00 00 00 00 00 99 0e 4b ea d3 f6 6a 4f a4 2a ab 1e b9 70 2a f1 02 02 / 04 04 46 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 4d 00 69 00 63 00 72 00 6f 00 73 00 6f 00 66 00 74 00 5c 00 42 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 5c 00 62 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 6d 00 67 00 66 00 77 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
         data: 57 49 4e 44 4f 57 53 00 01 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 78 00 00 00 42 00 43 00 44 00 4f 00 42 00 4a 00 45 00 43 00 54 00 3d 00 7b 00 39 00 64 00 65 00 61 00 38 00 36 00 32 00 63 00 2d 00 35 00 63 00 64 00 64 00 2d 00 34 00 65 00 37 00 30 00 2d 00 61 00 63 00 63 00 31 00 2d 00 66 00 33 00 32 00 62 00 33 00 34 00 34 00 64 00 34 00 37 00 39 00 35 00 7d 00 00 00 34 00 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0010  Setup    FvFile(721c8b66-426c-4e86-8e99-3457c46ab0b9)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 66 8b 1c 72 6c 42 86 4e 8e 99 34 57 c4 6a b0 b9 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0011  Boot Menu        FvFile(126a762d-5758-4fca-8531-201a7f57f850)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 2d 76 6a 12 58 57 ca 4f 85 31 20 1a 7f 57 f8 50 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0012  Diagnostic Splash Screen FvFile(a7d8d9a6-6ab0-4aeb-ad9d-163e59a7a380)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 a6 d9 d8 a7 b0 6a eb 4a ad 9d 16 3e 59 a7 a3 80 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0013  Lenovo Diagnostics       FvFile(3f7e615b-0d45-4f80-88dc-26b234958560)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 5b 61 7e 3f 45 0d 80 4f 88 dc 26 b2 34 95 85 60 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0014  ThinkShield secure wipe  FvFile(3593a0d5-bd52-43a0-808e-cbff5ece2477)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 d5 a0 93 35 52 bd a0 43 80 8e cb ff 5e ce 24 77 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0015  ThinkShield Passwordless Power-On Device Manager FvFile(08448b41-7f83-49be-82a7-0e84790ab133)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 41 8b 44 08 83 7f be 49 82 a7 0e 84 79 0a b1 33 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0016  Wi-Fi Configuration      FvFile(d3aaff0f-cb22-4792-896c-802c2e9383ba)2d004100700070000000
           dp: 04 06 14 00 0f ff aa d3 22 cb 92 47 89 6c 80 2c 2e 93 83 ba / 7f ff 04 00
         data: 2d 00 41 00 70 00 70 00 00 00
     Boot0017  Reinstall Windows from Cloud     FvFile(3edbaac4-5017-4870-8cc4-721f9ef1974f)2d004100700070000000
           dp: 04 06 14 00 c4 aa db 3e 17 50 70 48 8c c4 72 1f 9e f1 97 4f / 7f ff 04 00
         data: 2d 00 41 00 70 00 70 00 00 00
     Boot0018  Startup Interrupt Menu   FvFile(f46ee6f4-4785-43a3-923d-7f786c3c8479)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 f4 e6 6e f4 85 47 a3 43 92 3d 7f 78 6c 3c 84 79 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0019  Rescue and Recovery      FvFile(665d3f60-ad3e-4cad-8e26-db46eee9f1b5)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 60 3f 5d 66 3e ad ad 4c 8e 26 db 46 ee e9 f1 b5 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot001A  Regulatory Information   FvFile(478c92a0-2622-42b7-a65d-5894169e4d24)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 a0 92 8c 47 22 26 b7 42 a6 5d 58 94 16 9e 4d 24 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot001B  Lenovo OneKey Recovery   FvFile(04970e59-fccc-47cc-b945-7976ee7dbb7a)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 59 0e 97 04 cc fc cc 47 b9 45 79 76 ee 7d bb 7a / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot001C  Asset Information        FvFile(da465b87-a26f-4c12-b78a-0361428fa026)
           dp: 04 06 14 00 87 5b 46 da 6f a2 12 4c b7 8a 03 61 42 8f a0 26 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot001D* USB CD   VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,86701296aa5a7848b66cd49dd3ba6a55)
           dp: 03 0a 24 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b 86 70 12 96 aa 5a 78 48 b6 6c d4 9d d3 ba 6a 55 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot001E* USB FDD  VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,6ff015a28830b543a8b8641009461e49)
           dp: 03 0a 24 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b 6f f0 15 a2 88 30 b5 43 a8 b8 64 10 09 46 1e 49 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot001F* NVMe0    VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,001c199932d94c4eae9aa0b6e98eb8a400)
           dp: 03 0a 25 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b 00 1c 19 99 32 d9 4c 4e ae 9a a0 b6 e9 8e b8 a4 00 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0020* USB HDD  VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,33e821aaaf33bc4789bd419f88c50803)
           dp: 03 0a 24 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b 33 e8 21 aa af 33 bc 47 89 bd 41 9f 88 c5 08 03 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0021* PXE BOOT VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,78a84aaf2b2afc4ea79cf5cc8f3d3803)
           dp: 03 0a 24 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b 78 a8 4a af 2b 2a fc 4e a7 9c f5 cc 8f 3d 38 03 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0022* LENOVO CLOUD     VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,ad38ccbbf7edf04d959cf42aa74d3650)/Uri(https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/cdeploy/efi/boot.efi)
           dp: 03 0a 24 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b ad 38 cc bb f7 ed f0 4d 95 9c f4 2a a7 4d 36 50 / 03 18 3b 00 68 74 74 70 73 3a 2f 2f 64 6f 77 6e 6c 6f 61 64 2e 6c 65 6e 6f 76 6f 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 70 63 63 62 62 73 2f 63 64 65 70 6c 6f 79 2f 65 66 69 2f 62 6f 6f 74 2e 65 66 69 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0023* ON-PREMISE       VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,ad38ccbbf7edf04d959cf42aa74d3650)/Uri()
           dp: 03 0a 24 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b ad 38 cc bb f7 ed f0 4d 95 9c f4 2a a7 4d 36 50 / 03 18 04 00 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0024  Other CD VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,aea2090adfde214e8b3a5e471856a35400)
           dp: 03 0a 25 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b ae a2 09 0a df de 21 4e 8b 3a 5e 47 18 56 a3 54 00 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0025  Other HDD        VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,ca88c2349e7ae947beeb43038a5aeae700)
           dp: 03 0a 25 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b ca 88 c2 34 9e 7a e9 47 be eb 43 03 8a 5a ea e7 00 / 7f ff 04 00
     Boot0026* Boot Next Boot Option    VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f6)
           dp: 03 0a 24 00 d2 38 78 bc 82 0f 60 4d 83 16 c0 68 ee 79 d2 5b 91 af 62 59 56 44 9f 41 a7 b9 1f 4f 89 2a b0 f6 / 7f ff 04 00

NOTE: I am aware that similar questions have been asked here and elsewhere. I have searched far and wide, but (1) all similar issues were not exactly the same as mine and (2) I’d like someone to explain this to me like to a kid, I have no knowledge of boot, GRUB2, any other hardware/OS issues.

EDIT: typos

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Are you dual booting this installation with Windows or is this Fedora install everything that’s on there? Secure Boot enabled?

Post the output from inxi -Fzxx as it’ll answer mnny of the usual questions which people need to ask in order to assist.

Give a little background info too if you can - is this a fresh install of 43, did you upgrade from F42 or earlier, is this a new issue, etc, etc. The more info you can give about what your situation is, the better.

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Info requested:


lunatico@localhost:~$ inxi -Fzxx
System:
  Kernel: 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
  Desktop: GNOME v: 49.1 tk: GTK v: 3.24.51 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 21M1CTO1WW v: ThinkPad T14s Gen 6
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 21M1CTO1WW v: SDK0T76576 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: LENOVO_MT_21M1_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad
    T14s Gen 6 UEFI: LENOVO v: R2NET41W (1.15 ) date: 07/31/2025
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 35.2 Wh (58.2%) condition: 60.4/58 Wh (104.1%)
    volts: 11.75 min: 11.61 model: Sunwoda 5B11H56405 serial: <filter> charging:
    status: discharging control: start: 0% end: 100% cycles: 33
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 w/ Radeon 880M bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 5 rev: 0 cache: L1: 640 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2000 min/max: 623/5091:3325 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 2000 2: 2000 3: 2000 4: 2000 5: 2000 6: 2000 7: 2000 8: 2000 9: 2000
    10: 2000 11: 2000 12: 2000 13: 2000 14: 2000 15: 2000 16: 2000
    bogomips: 63879
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
    ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Strix [Radeon 880M / 890M]
    vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, DP-7,
    HDMI-A-1, Writeback-1 bus-ID: c3:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:150e temp: 34.0 C
  Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b805
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 compositor: gnome-shell
    driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Lenovo 0x403a res: 1920x1200 dpi: 161
    diag: 356mm (14")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.2.6 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon 890M Graphics (radeonsi gfx1150
    LLVM 21.1.4 DRM 3.64 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:150e
    display-ID: :0.0
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
  Info: Tools: api: glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio
    [Rembrandt/Strix] vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: c3:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_acp_pci v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: c3:00.5
    chip-ID: 1022:15e2
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
    vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: c3:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
  API: ALSA v: k6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm WCN785x Wi-Fi 7 320MHz 2x2 [FastConnect 7800]
    vendor: Lenovo driver: ath12k_pci v: N/A pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: c2:00.0 chip-ID: 17cb:1107
  IF: wlp194s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: wg0-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-5.1:3 chip-ID: 0489:e0fc
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
    lmp-v: 12
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 295.03 GiB (61.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDKBA512TGD-2BK15ABLT
    size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 31.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 474.34 GiB used: 294.46 GiB (62.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
    mapped: luks-809d8e12-998d-4bfc-bd25-68f7c54dcf47
  ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 568.5 MiB (29.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 474.34 GiB used: 294.46 GiB (62.1%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: luks-809d8e12-998d-4bfc-bd25-68f7c54dcf47
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 2467
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.48 GiB used: 4.29 GiB (14.1%)
  Processes: 955 Power: uptime: 11m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 258
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 24
    Compilers: clang: 21.1.4 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.0
    running-in: ghostty inxi: 3.3.39

Background: I bought this Lenovo ThinkPad earlier this year 2025, but it is a 2024 model. Came with Windows 11. I wiped that and installed Fedora 43 KDE. So not an update from a prevous Fedora version. No dual boot, I bit the bullet.

Then, I was having some issues which I attributed to KDE - see my thread here: How to switch from KDE to GNOME, F43

In fact, the dracut issue was one of them, but KDE was just buggy all around, my system crashed endlessly (without the dracut issues even). Anyway, I reinstalled Fedora 43 Workstation and was on my merry way.

I don’t know if this means anything, but I do still have Windows Boot in the Lenovo BIOS, even though there is no Win OS on it. Yes, I am using Secure Boot. All the Lenovo Boot settings I have kept at default, except for one, where I toggled ON the option “Enable 3rd party CA certificates” (for secure boot) - otherwise Windows would not let me boot anything else than itself. In fact, it had a bunch of Debian and Ubuntu signatures in its blacklist… anyway doesn’t matter.

One thing I am wondering, could this be caused by me getting my disk password wrong? Upon install, I chose Fedora’s disk encryption utility. I remember the password, but sometimes make typos and don’t notice, and the UI is not exactly very forgiving at this point… could that actually be the reason? Again though, I cannot confirm this for certain, just an idea.

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Well, the root file system must be unlocked before it can be accessed so if you do not properly enter the luks password then it may be cause for the failure to properly boot (the not all disks found message).

When you enter the emergency mode the system still cannot access the file system on-disk because it has not been unlocked.

The message about root account locked is probably a result of the default setting when fedora Workstation is installed. The account is actually locked and if you need to access it you will need to actually set a password for root. When logged in, from a terminal use the command sudo passwd root and create a password you can remember but is secure.

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That makes sense. I’m glad there isn’t something actually wrong with my system.

I did set up the root password/disk encryption password (different from my user password). As I’ve mentioned, I do remember it but I do sometimes make typos, and there is neither an option to reveal the password at boot time, nor a message that the password was entered incorrectly.

So I would zoom through the screen once, twice… and then the scary dracut screen would show up. Any normie like me would get worried, you guys, lol.

A somewhat similar annoyance is when I need to enter user password in terminal for sudo commands, the cursor does not move, so there is no indication of any input. I never realized how dependent I was upon the little password character dots as I’m typing the password, to not make typos.

Not the most difficult thing to get used to, though. Thanks everyone!