After upgrading to Fedora 44, my system drops into emergency mode on boot with this error:
Warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/1d97361c-a3a1-4de8-9897-8d4fcaefa222 does not exist
Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
AFter i press Enter it gives me more warnings. “not all disks have been found”
“you might want to regenerate your initramfs”
Booting from the older Fedora 43 kernel in GRUB works fine. How do I fix the Fedora 44 kernel so it boots properly?
Please provide a more specific title such as “ /dev/disk/by-uuid/ does not exist“ in 7.0.6-200.fc44.x86_64, but 7.0.3-200.fc43.x86_64 works”.
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ does not exist in 7.0.6-200.fc44.x86_64. Happened 2 3 times since upgrading to Fedora 44
How big is the /boot partition?
Find out by running the following command in a terminal
df -h /boot
If the reported size is 1.0G, then it’s likely that kernel installations run out of space and become corrupted.
Boot partition is 2.0G, 33% used. It doesn’t look like a space issue tho.
Please show us ls -l /boot. You can try dnf5 reinstall kernel-core-7.0.6-200.fc44.x86_64 to rebuild the initramfs.
Please post terminal output as pre-formatted web-discoverable text. Images are hard to read on small screens, and text is more likely to be found by others with similar issues — some may know a solution. It is odd that the 7.0.6 initrd is smaller than the 6.19.14 version. They usually get larger with new kernels. Did you try rebuilding?
Reinstall failed:
$ sudo dnf5 reinstall kernel-core-7.0.6-200.fc44.x86_64
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Packages for argument 'kernel-core-7.0.6-200.fc44.x86_64' installed, but not available.
Rebuilt initramfs instead with sudo dracut -f --kver 7.0.6-200.fc44.x86_64 completed but size stayed almost the same. Haven’t had the emergency mode issue since. Here’s the current /boot:
$ ls -l /boot
total 599284
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 297817 Apr 23 05:00 config-6.19.14-200.fc43.x86_64
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 297817 Apr 23 05:00 config-6.19.14-300.fc44.x86_64
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 299387 May 13 05:00 config-7.0.6-200.fc44.x86_64
-rw-------. 1 root root 269950740 Apr 20 22:58 initramfs-0-rescue-471165e90b0c43a69fb5ad9267cd8766.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 72485592 May 2 23:53 initramfs-6.19.14-200.fc43.x86_64.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 81690641 May 3 00:04 initramfs-6.19.14-300.fc44.x86_64.img
-rw-------. 1 root root 80489607 May 18 01:22 initramfs-7.0.6-200.fc44.x86_64.img
Glad you have the system working, but I’m not confident that everything is properly configured, and 7.0.8 has important security improvements, so installing 7.0.8 would be useful for both secuity and to check that kernel updates are now working properly.
Thank you so much for your help. I’ll go ahead and install 7.0.8. I’m pretty new to this and it’s only been about a month since I switched from windows to fedora and honestly it’s making my life less miserable and less boring.