Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot
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@bigbear You can hit alt+arrow key right to get to a root prompt with the installer? Or get to a root prompt at all?
If so,
https://www.axllent.org/docs/view/erase-your-mbr/
This should wipe out things to get you a fresh start. -
Burning an actual CD right now but not sure if it will be the same as the live USB stick I was already using. Thought if its "net install" it should be different.
Will give some of the suggestions above a try.
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@momurda said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
@bigbear You can hit alt+arrow key right to get to a root prompt with the installer? Or get to a root prompt at all?
If so,
https://www.axllent.org/docs/view/erase-your-mbr/
This should wipe out things to get you a fresh start.Is this with the net installer CD?
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@bigbear Ill have to check. Any way you can get a root prompt will suffice.
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From the live CD, this is what it wants to create when I do a custom setup and delete all partitions.
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And I have tried LVM and Standard Partition both.. so I guess I need to get to a prompt. Frmo the live USB stick I could not login as root. Blasted Windows...
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@momurda said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
@bigbear Ill have to check. Any way you can get a root prompt will suffice.
Im in the live CD and pressing ALT key plus RIGHT ARROW key?
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@bigbear Yes or Alt + f2, f3, all the way to f8 I think should also switch to different console. One of them should be a # prompt
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You also might want to check SATA mode for your SATA ports in bios/uefi.
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This post sounds familiar except I wasn’t trying to dual boot anything.
I just uswd the same live usb stick to wipe a windows 10 laptop with now issue so far after several reboot.
Waiting for net install cd to complete to see if I still have the same issue, then will try commands above from sudo -i since root no longer has a password?
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@momurda said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
You also might want to check SATA mode for your SATA ports in bios/uefi.
You know I think Sata is set to IDE mode because I remember seeing that in the bios when changing boot order...
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@momurda said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
You also might want to check SATA mode for your SATA ports in bios/uefi.
Data ports have ahci/ide/raid options. ide and achi have no impact, will have to pick up in the morning on this
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@bigbear said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
From the live CD, this is what it wants to create when I do a custom setup and delete all partitions.
I hate this default layout.
I would delete the
/homepartition and then set/to 500Gb and then click update. it will resize it down to max.This is a server. There is no reason to have a separate
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@jaredbusch said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
@bigbear said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
From the live CD, this is what it wants to create when I do a custom setup and delete all partitions.
I hate this default layout.
I would delete the
/homepartition and then set/to 500Gb and then click update. it will resize it down to max.This is a server. There is no reason to have a separate
/homelike this.That is a Fedora workstation live installer.
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@jaredbusch said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
@bigbear said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
From the live CD, this is what it wants to create when I do a custom setup and delete all partitions.
I hate this default layout.
I would delete the
/homepartition and then set/to 500Gb and then click update. it will resize it down to max.This is a server. There is no reason to have a separate
/homelike this.It was for a spare workstation at a customer location in a spare office, I am going to be in and out helping a lot and dont want to leave my laptop there.
But I agree and hate the layout, and I am started to think its just a POS ThinkCenter that isnt going to work.
I actually tried to installed Fedora on a spare Intel Server they had with a SR1200BTS but the mouse and keyboard literally will move only every 10 seconds. I flashed the BIOS to 2018 March release but it didnt help so I grabbed the ThinkCenter.
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So I made a full USB installer for Suse Tumbleweed this morning and loaded it up, I am afraid to reboot.
I am hoping its something Fedora is missing the Suse got right...
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@bigbear said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
So I made a full USB installer for Suse Tumbleweed this morning and loaded it up, I am afraid to reboot.
I am hoping its something Fedora is missing the Suse got right...
/me hands you a dang helmet.
Good luck!
