Dual boot Win11/Fedora42 Windows Boots, Fedora error

[David Carvalho]

Hi!
I received new PCs for a lab and I installed a dual boot Windows 11 and Fedora 42. On another lab I successfully deployed dual boot Windows 10 and Fedora 42 in July, last year.
I was expecting UEFI and boot issues like I had previously, but Windows 11 works fine. Yesterday, when booting into Linux, the system stops with:
[FAILED] Failed to listen on dbus.socket - D-BUS System Message Bus Socket.
[DEPEND] Dependency failedfor upower.service - Daemon for powermanagement.

Since then I created a new image with more software on Windows, and never changed Linux, but now I get:

Generating "/run/initramfs/rdosreport.txt"
Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to ...
Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.

What could be thew problem?
Thanks and regards

[David Carvalho]

hmmmm....I compared the 2 linux installations...The one that thoesn't boot is BTRFS.
I just checked and aparently this is not supported by Clonezilla, right? If so, I guess I've found the cause...

[Steven Shiau]

BTRFS is supported as testing features in Clonezilla, since it changes all the time.
Maybe you can give testing Clonezilla live a try? e.g.., >= 3.3.1-27 or 20260115-*:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
There were many changes and improvements during the past 3-4 months.
BTW, another thing you have to make sure is your Fedora 42 should have the required kernel modules to support your storage device in the destination machine. To me the error message seems to be this issue.

[David Carvalho]

Reinstalled Linux, So now I have windows 11 and Fedora 42 with ext 4. Everything is working. Maybe I'll test btrfs when i get the chance. Thanks.

[Steven Shiau]

OK. Actually it's not recommend to use BTRFS for a production system. It really changes very fast and Clonezilla does not really support it well.