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.
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