There are 252 (42 * 6) lines of device-mapper's error messages in the Neil's log. Dracut tries 42 times and gives up: _cnt=0 while [ $_cnt -le 40 ]; do _check_shutdown && break _cnt=$(($_cnt+1)) done [ $_cnt -ge 40 ] && _check_shutdown final https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/master/modules.d/99shutdown/shutdown.sh