On Sat, Nov 8, 2025, 8:19 AM Terry Hurlbut <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2025, 4:20 PM Samuel Sieb <[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. >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> >> Finally I got a chance to try to boot the machine with a non-quiet rhgb >> setting. The machine makes it to a line beginning with "started livesys". >> Then the screen bkanks out except for the blinking, then steady underscore >> I mentioned at first. Another attempt let's me remember more: "started >> livesys-late service." Then the blank-out. >> > I can get to a command-line prompt that reads like "grub>". But I don't know where to go from there. >
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