Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-08 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 19:47 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > during the installation of the Live image of Fedora Workstation 30 to > my hard drive, I was never prompted to set up a user account for > myself, or given the opportunity to set a password for root. I've recently installed the Mate spin

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-07 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On 7/2/19 3:06 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 01:42 -0400, Steven Ulrick wrote: But for some reason, the password that I used to install and upgrade all that stuff stopped working. So, I booted the Live DVD again (which takes a long time on my system), did the chroot thing again,

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-02 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 01:42 -0400, Steven Ulrick wrote: > But for some reason, the password that I used to install and upgrade > all that stuff stopped working. So, I booted the Live DVD again > (which takes a long time on my system), did the chroot thing again, > and changed the password. passwd d

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-01 Thread Steven Ulrick
OK, here is where things stand now. I discovered that when I had mounted my Fedora 30 root partition using chroot that since I was still booted into the Live DVD, I was connected to the internet. Earlier tonight, when I tried to dnf install some things directly in the Live DVD, I had to erase Firef

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-01 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 21:02:07 -0500 Steven Ulrick wrote: > > Dependency failed for GNOME Display Manager, Network Man & Login > Services! L1TF CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See > CVE-2018-3646 and > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/l1tf.html The link is dead,

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-01 Thread Steven Ulrick
On Monday, July 1, 2019, Steven Ulrick wrote: > Does it matter that my system is pre-EFI? > > On Monday, July 1, 2019, stan via users > wrote: > >> On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:09:44 -0500 >> Steven Ulrick wrote: >> >> > On Monday, July 1, 2019, Steven Ulrick wrote: >> > >> > > Hello, Everyone >> > >

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-01 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 20:33:19 -0500 Steven Ulrick wrote: > Does it matter that my system is pre-EFI? It matters. Is it incapable of EFI or you just aren't using EFI and using bios boot instead? If your system is capable of EFI, the install might default to EFI. When you boot the install media,

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-01 Thread Steven Ulrick
Does it matter that my system is pre-EFI? On Monday, July 1, 2019, stan via users wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:09:44 -0500 > Steven Ulrick wrote: > > > On Monday, July 1, 2019, Steven Ulrick wrote: > > > > > Hello, Everyone > > > I just booted the live DVD of Fedora Workstation 30. I chose t

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-01 Thread Steven Ulrick
On Monday, July 1, 2019, Steven Ulrick wrote: > On Monday, July 1, 2019, Steven Ulrick wrote: > >> Hello, Everyone >> I just booted the live DVD of Fedora Workstation 30. I chose to install >> to harddrive. It appeared to install fine, but it boots to nothing but a >> black screen with a flashin

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-01 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:09:44 -0500 Steven Ulrick wrote: > On Monday, July 1, 2019, Steven Ulrick wrote: > > > Hello, Everyone > > I just booted the live DVD of Fedora Workstation 30. I chose to > > install to harddrive. It appeared to install fine, but it boots to > > nothing but a black screen

Re: Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-01 Thread Steven Ulrick
On Monday, July 1, 2019, Steven Ulrick wrote: > Hello, Everyone > I just booted the live DVD of Fedora Workstation 30. I chose to install to > harddrive. It appeared to install fine, but it boots to nothing but a black > screen with a flashing underscore character. So, where do I go from here? I

Fresh install of Fedora 30 boots to flashing underscore

2019-07-01 Thread Steven Ulrick
Hello, Everyone I just booted the live DVD of Fedora Workstation 30. I chose to install to harddrive. It appeared to install fine, but it boots to nothing but a black screen with a flashing underscore character. So, where do I go from here? I have been successfully running Fedora 27 on this same sy