On 11/6/25 4:28 PM, Terry Hurlbut wrote:
On Thu, Nov 6, 2025, 4:20 PM Samuel Sieb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 11/6/25 12:45 PM, Terry Hurlbut wrote:
> Yesterday I turned on my computer to boot F42 after an overnight
> shutdown. It refused to load. The display got through all three
points
> of the ellipsis, then showed a blinking underscore for five seconds.
> Then the underscore showed steady, and the booting got no
further. Ten
> times I shut it down with the Power button and waited for it to
reboot,
> with the same result.
>
> My device has a pair of SSDs, with the OS and most applications
on one,
> and all my data on the other. So if I could boot the machine from
> anything, and then do any kind of installation of F43, I don't
think I
> would lose my data.
>
> So would someone tell me, please, how to restore functionality
to my
> desktop, with or without upgrading to F43, whether with a clean
install
> or by using DNF5 (sp ) ?
>
> By the way, I have used KDE for years, and would prefer to stay
in that
> environment and not switch to GNOME.
Edit the grub entry to remove "quiet rhgb", then see what the last
messages are when it gets stuck.
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Will do, if you tell me how to get into the GRUB entry editor to make
that change, or any other change. Thank you for your quick response thus
far.
If you don't see the grub menu at boot, then repeatedly press a key (not
enter) before the boot starts. Then go to the line you want to boot,
most likely the first one. Press "e", then you can edit the entry.
This only applies to the current boot, which is what you want right now.
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