> On 10 Apr 2025, at 19:21, home user via users <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I tried to upgrade from Fedora-40 (patched this morning) to Fedora-41. I > followed the instructions in the Fedora web site > ".../upgrading-fedora-offline" document. After the "dnf system-upgrade > reboot" step, the boot process never resulted in a login screen. I tried > several times, including recycling the power switch on the back of the tower.
Sounds like you have a GPU that does not have working drivers, often the case with nvidia. Did you try typing Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get to a console? Does that work? If so you can start to diagnose what's wrong. > Trying to boot Fedora-40 also does not result in a login screen. I tried > that a few times. F40 is gone - all that is left is the kernels that you installed for f40. > > This is a stand-alone dual boot workstation, the other OS being windows-7, > which I am using now to send out this message. This is old hardware I assume. I wonder if you have upgraded to use Wayland desktop but the GPU drivers only support X11? > > My windows-7 install does have the tool "ext2explore". That allows me to > copy files from the Fedora partitions into windows-7, where I can view those > files with w7's standard tools. > > New hardware is out of the question until early summer. > > I've never been able to make a live USB and then successfully boot from it; I > don't know why. That makes recovery a lot harder... It would be worth your effort to be able to boot USB live images so you can recover from this type of situation. Barry > > I do not have a rescue. > > Help!!! > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
