On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM Terry Hurlbut <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 8, 2025, 2:36 PM George N. White III <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM Terry Hurlbut <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > 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: >> >>> [...] >> >>> >> >>> Edit the grub entry to remove "quiet rhgb", then see what the last >> >>> messages are when it gets stuck. >> >>> [...] >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Finally I got a chance to try to boot the machine with a non-quiet rhgb >> >>> setting. The machine makes >> >>> t 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. >> > >> >> Enter "help" to get a list of commands, but from your description, it >> seems that grub2 is working -- the >> problem is getting graphics to work. Messing with grub is likely to >> create new problems. >> >> Do you have a way to get a text console, boot the Live USB Installer, >> or use ssh from another system. >> Any of those should let you view the journal entries from a boot that >> failed to reach graphics mode. >> You may need to read up on journalctl -- it collects massive amounts >> of data so you need to isolate >> entries relevant to your problem. >> >> -- >> George N. White III >> -- > > > I don't have a live USB installer. If I wanted to create one, could I do it > on a public computer, like one at my local library, and how big a USB stick > or "thumb drive" would I need to buy? And could I use that to install a new > system, like a KDE install of F43? My data is on another SSD drive mounted as > /crypt, so I could do a new install without losing data. Recreating my > applications might take time, but I'm sure I could do that. > > The other options you named, I don't think I can do. I do have another > desktop on my home network, and it's a Windows box. But I suspect just > installing F43 in KDE would be the simplest option. > You should be able to create a Live USB Installer using Windows (but Windows may change some non-essential data, so the checksum test may fail). I like Ventoy as you can have several iso files on one stick (32 GB is cheap these days). I have a couple Fedora Installers and bootable GNU gparted,
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