On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 10:51:34PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > This should have been a new thread instead of continuing from the other huge > one.
I normally remove the reference line but I'm not working in my normal environment and overlooked it. > > On 9/30/25 10:45 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > Since a large recent update I'm unable to reboot. > > Selecting any of the rescue or 5 retained kernels fails. > > After making the choice the screen clears to black with > > a single underscore and no further activity. > > How long did you wait? It clearly hangs immediatly. Once took 5 hr nap and still the same after I work up. > Did you try pressing ESC? and many other things. Even <Ctrl><Alt>Del doesn't reboot. Have to power off. Also no vconsoles (<Ctrl><Alt><Fn>). > > > Whether this had any effect I don't know, but during the > > update (including kernel 6.16.8-200) a disk drive from > > a defunct CentOS-7 system was mounted. The boot dir there > > was noted and my grub menu included Fedora and CentOS. > > > > Some of what I've tried: > > > > - Booted a live F42 system and did an fsck on every file > > system. Nothing except "optimizing" type messages. > > > > - From the live system mounted the root, var, boot, and efi > > system and chroot'ed to that environment. Ran grub2-mkconfig. > > Got rid of the CentOS stuff in the grub menu but still no > > boot. > > > > - As above, remade the initramfs with dracut but no change. > > What is the kernel command line in the grub config file? linux ($root)/vmlinuz-6.16.8-200.fc42.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vgSys-lvRoot \ ro rd.lvm.lv=vgSys/lvRoot rhgb quiet \ initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init \ rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core \ modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core Removing the rhgb & quiet results in no change. Screen still clears to black with no output. I was surprised no "boot" in path but my funtional laptop has no "boot" mentioned either. Jon -- _______________________________________________ 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
