Solved Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop
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@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
I did have a Fedora 31 laptop (different model Dell than mine) spun up and logged in two weeks ago. I have ran updates on that one and rebooted. it is running fine.
Yeah, my Dell with F31 hasn't had an issue yet and I keep it updated.
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@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
The updates show that grub had changes. Shit happens with all OS.
They also showed that something new was being compiled against GLibC and the Kernel.
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@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
Kernel 5.3.12-300 is current.
But both previous kernels fail also.
5.3.11-300
5.3.8-300So this suggests that a library or something has failed, not the kernel. That's going to be a huge pain.
Right sounds like the grub update borked itself.
That's definitely my guess.
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@JaredBusch have you tried the boot loader rebuild process listed here?
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@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch have you tried the boot loader rebuild process listed here?
I don't have any internet. It only boots to emergency mode when I choose the rescue kernel. Anything else is the boot loop.
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@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch have you tried the boot loader rebuild process listed here?
I don't have any internet. It only boots to emergency mode when I choose the rescue kernel. Anything else is the boot loop.
What about booting to a rescue USB stick?
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@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch have you tried the boot loader rebuild process listed here?
I don't have any internet. It only boots to emergency mode when I choose the rescue kernel. Anything else is the boot loop.
What about booting to a rescue USB stick?
I can boot to a live USB. try it from there you think?
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@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch have you tried the boot loader rebuild process listed here?
I don't have any internet. It only boots to emergency mode when I choose the rescue kernel. Anything else is the boot loop.
What about booting to a rescue USB stick?
I can boot to a live USB. try it from there you think?
I think so.
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managed to boot into recovery mode and get an IP from a USB ethernet dongle.
I ran through the instructions fine on that link, but then step 5 was a link to another page that stated to run
grub2-install /dev/sdaWell that puked on the nowEFI thing. Google told me I needed to
dnf install grub2-efi-x64-modules.Now it dies and says
grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory -
@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
managed to boot into recovery mode and get an IP from a USB ethernet dongle.
I ran through the instructions fine on that link, but then step 5 was a link to another page that stated to run
grub2-install /dev/sdaWell that puked on the nowEFI thing. Google told me I needed to
dnf install grub2-efi-x64-modules.Now it dies and says
grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directoryThese look to be more up to date with more details.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/bootloading-with-grub2/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2 -
@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
Now I am trying to boot up and it simply goes back to bios.
Obviously something is crashing in the boot cycle. But what?
Kernel 5.3.12-300 is current.I dont know why you love that Distro at ML ... Ubuntu 19.10 and POP OS looks similar in software updates and more stable
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@Emad-R said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
Now I am trying to boot up and it simply goes back to bios.
Obviously something is crashing in the boot cycle. But what?
Kernel 5.3.12-300 is current.I dont know why you love that Distro at ML ... Ubuntu 19.10 and POP OS looks similar in software updates and more stable
That's not helpful for his situation.
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@black3dynamite said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
managed to boot into recovery mode and get an IP from a USB ethernet dongle.
I ran through the instructions fine on that link, but then step 5 was a link to another page that stated to run
grub2-install /dev/sdaWell that puked on the nowEFI thing. Google told me I needed to
dnf install grub2-efi-x64-modules.Now it dies and says
grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directoryThese look to be more up to date with more details.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/bootloading-with-grub2/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2well, I totally broke something in
grub. Laptop no longer sees any boot partition.So, clean reinstall time.
Just really annoyed that I couldn't figure this out with everyone's help.
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Clean install from the live media. All good after multiple reboots.
dnf upgrade --refresh --exclude kernel*And hmmmmm
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What the heck.
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@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
Clean install from the live media. All good after multiple reboots.
dnf upgrade --refresh --exclude kernel*And hmmmmm
Is something wrong with SELinux permissions?
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@black3dynamite said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
Clean install from the live media. All good after multiple reboots.
dnf upgrade --refresh --exclude kernel*And hmmmmm
Is something wrong with SELinux permissions?
It is a 100% new install. Second time in fact because I installed the first time, ran updates and rebooted before looking. And it wouldn’t reboot. So I did it again.
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@JaredBusch efibootmgr is clean?
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@warren-stanley said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:
@JaredBusch efibootmgr is clean?
at this point, yes, because it was a clean install. twice.
