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    • bigbearB
      bigbear
      last edited by bigbear

      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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        1337 @bigbear
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        @bigbear Try adding nomodeset to the boot parameters.

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        • bigbearB
          bigbear @1337
          last edited by

          @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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          • black3dynamiteB
            black3dynamite
            last edited by

            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

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            • bigbearB
              bigbear @black3dynamite
              last edited by

              @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.iso

              Was 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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              • black3dynamiteB
                black3dynamite @bigbear
                last edited by

                @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.iso

                Was 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/

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                  1337 @bigbear
                  last edited by 1337

                  @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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                  • momurdaM
                    momurda @bigbear
                    last edited by

                    @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.

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                    • bigbearB
                      bigbear
                      last edited by

                      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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                      • bigbearB
                        bigbear @momurda
                        last edited by

                        @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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                        • momurdaM
                          momurda @bigbear
                          last edited by

                          @bigbear Ill have to check. Any way you can get a root prompt will suffice.

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                          • bigbearB
                            bigbear
                            last edited by bigbear

                            From the live CD, this is what it wants to create when I do a custom setup and delete all partitions.

                            0_1535064132419_60BFB011-D34E-431C-9014-465A58E53921.jpeg

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                            • bigbearB
                              bigbear
                              last edited by

                              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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                              • bigbearB
                                bigbear @momurda
                                last edited by

                                @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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                                • momurdaM
                                  momurda @bigbear
                                  last edited by momurda

                                  @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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                                  • momurdaM
                                    momurda
                                    last edited by

                                    You also might want to check SATA mode for your SATA ports in bios/uefi.

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                                    • bigbearB
                                      bigbear
                                      last edited by

                                      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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                                      • bigbearB
                                        bigbear @momurda
                                        last edited by

                                        @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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                                        • bigbearB
                                          bigbear @momurda
                                          last edited by

                                          @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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                                          • JaredBuschJ
                                            JaredBusch @bigbear
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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.

                                            0_1535064132419_60BFB011-D34E-431C-9014-465A58E53921.jpeg

                                            I hate this default layout.

                                            I would delete the /home partition 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 /home like this.

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