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| rhel hangs starting switch root |
CentOS / RHEL 7 : Booting process https://www.thegeekdiary.com/centos-rhel-7-booting-process/
System falls in to emergency mode due initrd-switch-root.service entered failed state. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4973191
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https://askbot.fedoraproject.org/en/question/97401/boot-stuck-at-starting-switch-root-how-do-i-investigate/
I've had the exact same scenario happen to me and wasted 2 days trying to figure out what the problem was. For some reason, for now, the upgrade to F25 seems to be stuck for me and i can't figure out why. If you want to get rid of the boot freeze issue try this: 1. start pc;2 at grub, select the kernel you want to boot;3 edit the selection (e ) and add a 5 at the end of the line begining with linux16;
The system should now boot normally. After you are able to login, remove the link /system-update from root and you should be able to get rid of the boot freeze issue.
Haven't been able to figure out why this happens. I retried the upgrade again but it stopped at the same step (starting root switch). It seems that the os is not able to mount the root partition when that system-update flag is present :(
EDIT: i was finally able to update my workstation using the GNOME software. I was little disappointing that i was not able to use dnf. I have been using it since F20.