On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:21 PM stan via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 15:05:36 -0400 > murph nj <murphnj+fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems. > > Did that include the boot partition, where the kernels and initramfs' > are? > I had not, but on your suggestion, I did. And.... > > I also took a look at the journals that were left, there was nothing > > that seemed terribly indicative of the problem. It was all from the > > last time that it was running normally, nothing was getting written on > > the failed boot attempts, unfortunately. > > Did you remove rhgb and quiet from the kernel boot parameters? That > should show you the stream of messages from systemd as the system > boots, and the error should be near the end of that stream, so it > should still be on screen when the crash happens. I think you hit > space or escape during boot to get the boot menu, and then you can edit > the line. I have a timeout, so I always see it. > I had not, but I edited from the grub menu, and eliminated them. I was then able to see the messages. (I was able to see them previously by hitting the escape key right after entering my password for the disks.) Everything left on the screen after the kernel panic is (too much to type) https://imgur.com/a/kf81crl > Does it drop to a dracut or grub prompt? If it does, it is also > possible to view the temporary boot logs from there (I think they are > under /tmp (/var/tmp?)). It's painful because the shell is very limited. > Use > ls /bin > to see the available commands. I think less is there, as is vi. Unfortunately, it goes right to a kernel panic, so no prompts at all to work with. (I'd have chewed on it more before asking for help if I had more to work with) _______________________________________________ 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