Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot
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I made a Fedora 28 Live USB stick and booted up, wiped hard drive data and installed a fresh copy on a spare system. Rebooted and all is well.
Later I reboot without the USB drive and I am greeting with a flashing cursor. Rebooting with the USB drive in doesnt get me back in.This was a spare system that had Windows 7 and was updating to Windows 10. I selected automatic for drive setup and to reclaim all space.
So I did another install and manually deleted the partitions prior to create a new volume, installed/rebooted with USB stick and... blinking cursor again.
Im sure somehow Windows 7 MBR and GRUB is screwed up but cant figure it out. Windows should be gone. I havent done a 28 install or a 27 install, its a been a while. Any ideas?
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@bigbear Try adding nomodeset to the boot parameters.
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@pete-s said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
@bigbear Try adding nomodeset to the boot parameters.
I added that temp to make sure it wasnt a video issue. I feel like its a MBR issue the more I google around. Most posts I find our from Fedora 6 though. I thought my second install would have wiped out any of those problems though.
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Have you tried the netinstall version for workstation?
https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/28/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-28-1.1.iso -
@black3dynamite said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
Have you tried the netinstall version for workstation?
https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/28/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-28-1.1.isoWas just too lazy to go looking for a CDRW but perhaps I will. I have never used the USB live version with Fedora so maybe its just that...
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@bigbear said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
@black3dynamite said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:
Have you tried the netinstall version for workstation?
https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/28/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-28-1.1.isoWas just too lazy to go looking for a CDRW but perhaps I will. I have never used the USB live version with Fedora so maybe its just that...
I've also had great success create bootable Linux USB using etcher.
https://etcher.io/ -
@bigbear Just boot with another live linux distro and then write over the mbr with dd or delete all partitions. Make sure the USB device is set as the first bootable device in BIOS.
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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
/homelike this.