Glenn Eychaner wrote: > I have been following these instructions: > https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=501 > to put a bunch of utilities (Clonezilla, SystemRescue, CentOS > netinstall/rescue, etc.) on a single USB key. It works great for everything (including > Ubuntu Live) except the CentOS 6.4 LiveCD. (You can see my postings at the bottom of > the forum.) When booting the LiveCD, I got: > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-358.el6.i686 #1 > After removing "quiet" and adding "selinux=disabled", I got more Get rid of rhgb, too. > information; the boot stalls after finding devices, and gives: > No root device "block:/dev/mapper/live-rw" found > dracut suggests adding "rdshell", which I did. This was not helpful (I > had no idea what to do in the dracut shell), but did notice that in the dracut > shell /dev/ did NOT seem to contain my USB drive at /dev/sdb as I would expect. When you boot from a USB key, it always shows as /dev/sda. Second, rdshell is a grub shell. Are you trying to boot from the USB? If so, I'd fix the grub menu on that, if it's on /dev/sda1 of the flash drive, to use /dev/sda2 for the root= mark