On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:09:44 -0500 Steven Ulrick <meow8282@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday, July 1, 2019, Steven Ulrick <meow8282@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, Everyone > > I just booted the live DVD of Fedora Workstation 30. I chose to > > install to harddrive. It appeared to install fine, but it boots to > > nothing but a black screen with a flashing underscore character. > > So, where do I go from here? I have been successfully running > > Fedora 27 on this same system for quite a while. Again, this is NOT > > an attempted upgrade from Fedora 27. > > > > Steven P. Ulrick > > > > Tried to boot into single user mode, and since I wasn't given an > >opportunity to set a root password, "the root account is locked. > >" ... When you try to boot the new system directly, hit ESC or space during boot to try to bring up the menu. Then edit the boot line to remove rhgb and quiet. That should show you the actual output during boot, and what is causing the problem will usually be the last thing displayed. That's a good place to start looking for the issue. You could also check your firmware configuration by pressing F2 or Del during boot to bring up the firmware menu. What is the default boot set to? Do you have any way of examining the system? Usually the install media will have an option to boot in rescue mode, and then you can mount the new system under /mnt/sysimage to see it. The install media should have commands like /blkid, etc. to see what is happening, and vi should be present (actually vim minimal) for editing. At the very least you want to look at /etc/fstab, /boot, /boot/efi/EFI/fedora and /boot/loader/entries. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
