I’ve been running F39 since its pre-beta days, and this problem only cropped up several days ago after I updated. I’ve not used this laptop again till today. So, I’m not exactly sure when this update was installed.
I have a 2TB Samsung Evo Pro 980 NVMe drive. I dual boot Fedora and Windows 11.
I took a picture of what’s happening during startup. Excuse the dirty screen.
Scott
Have you tried an older kernel? The failure is happening in the initramfs (dracut), which is specific to each kernel.
What is that device it’s looking for? If you boot from a live USB, can you see that partition in Disks? Can you mount it?
Tried the two previous kernels in the GRUB menu. Same result.
The device is my NVMe drive. Half of which is partitioned for Windows. This had been working for several months without issue.
Looks like I’m gonna have to start over from square one.
I fresh installed Fedora 39 (I deleted all the partitions, which previously had windows, using the Fedora installer and installed it) and the same issue is happening to me, I couldn’t start Fedora, this error always appears
It would help us to understand the problem if you can answer @chrisawi’s 4 questions. You may need to boot a Fedora Workstation Live USB Installer. Please run
sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,UUID,MOUNTPOINT in a terminal and paste the output into a message using the </> tab.
Did you simply tell it to erase existing data and use the whole drive or did you manually delete windows partitions. There is a difference quite possible depending upon how the old partitions were removed and whether they were reused or the whole drive started with a new empty partition table…
