Boot USB hangs after grub menu

[drmoose]

Dear Fedora Community,

I tried to upgrade my system from 43 to 44, but my EFI partition ran out of space during the process and I ended up without a bootloader. “No problem,” I thought, “I’ll just boot to an install USB and fix it from there.”

Turns out I can’t boot Fedora’s live installer USBs images. The grub menu loads, but no matter which option I select, once grub disappears the system freezes.

So far this has reproduced with these versions of the live USB:

• Fedora 44 LXQT Spin
• Fedora 44 KDE Workstation
• Fedora 43 KDE Workstation
• Kinoite 44

All of these were written from a working linux machine using Fedora’s mediawriter with a sudo sync; sudo eject /dev/sdd afterwards for good measure. I’ve used multiple known-good USB sticks to rule out bad flash.

I’ve tried following kernel parameter changes (done using grub’s edit mode) with no effect:

• replacing quiet rhgb with loglevel=7 logo.nologo earlyprintk=vga,keep
• nokaslr in case it was a cursed memory address
• selinux=0 just to rule it out

A friend suggested I try console=ttyS0 and using a null modem to see if the kernel prints anything that way, but this motherboard ( TRX40 AORUS MASTER) doesn’t have any accessible serial or uart ports that I can find.

I also tried the following BIOS changes, all without any effect:

• reflashing firmware to a different version
• restoring factory defaults
• disable/enable secure boot
• disable/enable legacy boot
• disable/enable IOMMU
• disable/enable XMP

All extra hard drives and USB peripherals other than the keyboard have been physically removed.

The furthest I ever get is the "Booting " message after the grub menu disappears, seen here on one of my attempts with an altered command line:

Fortunately, the old Fedora Linux (0-rescue-<machineid>) 35 (Workstation Edition) vmlinuz, left over in /boot from when this machine was first built, still boots as far as the recovery console. I used it to generate the fpaste output below.

fpaste --sysinfo --printonly output, run from the fc35 rescue kernel, with some sections manually edited out to get under discourse's character limit.

=== fpaste 0.5.0.0 System Information ===
* OS Release (lsb_release -ds):
     "Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition)"
     
* CPU Model (grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: '{print $2}' | uniq -c |
     sed -re 's/^ +//' ):
     48  AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core Processor
     
* 64-bit Support (grep -q ' lm ' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
     Yes
     
* Hardware Virtualization Support (grep -Eq '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
     Yes
     
* Kernel (uname -r):
     5.14.10-300.fc35.x86_64
     
* Kernel cmdline (cat /proc/cmdline):
     BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-0-rescue-a0203c62a3c74fb3ac387f74d6a10a27 root=UUID=2a505364-7a2c-4e8f-8bd5-b129cbf83875 ro rootflags=subvol=root rd.luks.uuid=luks-6656f279-0345-4788-9a45-ffed39c0bbe8 rhgb quiet rd.neednet=1
     
* Desktop(s) Running (without results: "ps -eo comm= | grep -E '(gnome-session|startkde|startactive|xfce.?-session|fluxbox|blackbox|hackedbox|ratpoison|enlightenment|icewm-session|od-session|wmaker|wmx|openbox-lxde|openbox-gnome-session|openbox-kde-session|mwm|e16|fvwm|xmonad|sugar-session|mate-session|lxqt-session|cinnamon|lxdm-session|awesome|phosh|sway|Hyperland)' "):
     N/A

* Memory usage (free -hm):
                    total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
     Mem:           251Gi       3.0Gi       248Gi       1.8Mi       1.7Gi       248Gi
     Swap:             0B          0B          0B
     
* ZRAM usage (without results: "zramctl --output-all"):
     N/A

* Load average (uptime):
      12:27:04 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 0.29, 0.21, 0.09
     
* Pressure Stall Information (grep -R . /proc/pressure/):
     /proc/pressure/io:some avg10=0.02 avg60=0.10 avg300=0.04 total=385712
     /proc/pressure/io:full avg10=0.02 avg60=0.10 avg300=0.04 total=383452
     /proc/pressure/cpu:some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.28 avg300=0.32 total=1685272
     /proc/pressure/cpu:full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.01 avg300=0.00 total=173100
     /proc/pressure/memory:some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
     /proc/pressure/memory:full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
     
* Top 5 CPU hogs (ps axuScnh | awk '$2!=2337' | sort -rnk3 | head -5):
            0       1 21.3  0.0  49564 41420 ?        Ss   12:24   0:29 systemd
            0    1832 13.9  0.0  40824 17476 ?        Ss   12:25   0:09 systemd-udevd
            0    2201  0.6  0.0 234272  5756 tty1     S    12:26   0:00 zsh
            0    1837  0.5  0.0      0     0 ?        I    12:25   0:00 kworker/u256:18-kcryptd/253:0
            0       8  0.4  0.0      0     0 ?        I    12:24   0:00 kworker/u256:0-kcryptd/253:0
     
* Top 5 Memory hogs (ps axuScnh | sort -rnk4 | head -5):
          999    2323  0.1  0.0  15428  6980 ?        Ss   12:26   0:00 systemd-oomd
           32    2163  0.0  0.0  13500  5652 ?        Ss   12:25   0:00 rpcbind
           29    2192  0.0  0.0  11080  3248 ?        Ss   12:26   0:00 rpc.statd
          193    1826  0.0  0.0  21884 13288 ?        Ss   12:25   0:00 systemd-resolve
            0     998  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I<   12:24   0:00 kworker/44:1H-kblockd
     
* block devices (lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,FSUSE%,MOUNTPOINT,UUID,MIN-IO,SCHED,DISC-GRAN,MODEL):
     NAME                                          FSTYPE       SIZE FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT UUID                                 MIN-IO SCHED DISC-GRAN MODEL
     sda                                           iso9660     29.3G                   2025-10-23-04-17-29-00                  512 bfq          0B USB DISK
     ├─sda1                                        iso9660        3G                   2025-10-23-04-17-29-00                  512 bfq          0B 
     └─sda2                                        vfat          30M                   BA0E-CF8F                               512 bfq          0B 
     nvme0n1                                                    1.8T                                                           512 none       512B MKNSSDPE2TB-D8
     ├─nvme0n1p1                                   vfat         600M                   1361-65C5                               512 none       512B 
     ├─nvme0n1p2                                   ext4           1G    50% /boot      7d9d9869-53a2-4ee6-9fa8-a19e432a7430    512 none       512B 
     └─nvme0n1p3                                   crypto_LUKS  1.8T                   6656f279-0345-4788-9a45-ffed39c0bbe8    512 none       512B 
       └─luks-6656f279-0345-4788-9a45-ffed39c0bbe8 btrfs        1.8T    80% /home      2a505364-7a2c-4e8f-8bd5-b129cbf83875    512              0B 
     
* PCI devices (lspci -nn):
     00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Root Complex [1022:1480]
     00:00.2 IOMMU [0806]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse IOMMU [1022:1481]
     00:01.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     00:01.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse GPP Bridge [1022:1483]
     00:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     00:03.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     00:04.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     00:05.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     00:07.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     00:07.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to bus[E:B] [1022:1484]
     00:08.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     00:08.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to bus[E:B] [1022:1484]
     00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller [1022:790b] (rev 61)
     00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge [1022:790e] (rev 51)
     00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 0 [1022:1490]
     00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 1 [1022:1491]
     00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 2 [1022:1492]
     00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 3 [1022:1493]
     00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 4 [1022:1494]
     00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 5 [1022:1495]
     00:18.6 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 6 [1022:1496]
     00:18.7 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship Device 24; Function 7 [1022:1497]
     01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM2262/SM2262EN SSD Controller [126f:2262] (rev 03)
     02:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Function [1022:148a]
     03:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP [1022:1485]
     03:00.3 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship USB 3.0 Host Controller [1022:148c]
     20:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Root Complex [1022:1480]
     20:00.2 IOMMU [0806]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse IOMMU [1022:1481]
     20:01.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     20:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     20:03.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     20:03.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse GPP Bridge [1022:1483]
     20:04.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     20:05.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     20:07.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     20:07.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to bus[E:B] [1022:1484]
     20:08.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     20:08.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to bus[E:B] [1022:1484]
     21:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Upstream Port of PCI Express Switch [1002:1478] (rev c7)
     22:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Downstream Port of PCI Express Switch [1002:1479]
     23:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] [1002:73ff] (rev c7)
     23:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller [1002:ab28]
     24:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Function [1022:148a]
     25:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP [1022:1485]
     25:00.1 Encryption controller [1080]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Cryptographic Coprocessor PSPCPP [1022:1486]
     25:00.3 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship USB 3.0 Host Controller [1022:148c]
     25:00.4 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller [1022:1487]
     40:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Root Complex [1022:1480]
     40:00.2 IOMMU [0806]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse IOMMU [1022:1481]
     40:01.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     40:01.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse GPP Bridge [1022:1483]
     40:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     40:03.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     40:04.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     40:05.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     40:07.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     40:07.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to bus[E:B] [1022:1484]
     40:08.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     40:08.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to bus[E:B] [1022:1484]
     41:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse Switch Upstream [1022:57ad]
     42:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse PCIe GPP Bridge [1022:57a3]
     42:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse PCIe GPP Bridge [1022:57a3]
     42:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse PCIe GPP Bridge [1022:57a3]
     42:08.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse PCIe GPP Bridge [1022:57a4]
     42:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse PCIe GPP Bridge [1022:57a4]
     42:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse PCIe GPP Bridge [1022:57a4]
     43:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1539] (rev 03)
     44:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Aquantia Corp. AQC111 NBase-T/IEEE 802.3bz Ethernet Controller [AQtion] [1d6a:11b1] (rev 02)
     45:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 [8086:2723] (rev 1a)
     46:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP [1022:1485]
     46:00.1 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse USB 3.0 Host Controller [1022:149c]
     46:00.3 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse USB 3.0 Host Controller [1022:149c]
     47:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1022:7901] (rev 51)
     48:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1022:7901] (rev 51)
     49:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Function [1022:148a]
     4a:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP [1022:1485]
     60:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Root Complex [1022:1480]
     60:00.2 IOMMU [0806]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse IOMMU [1022:1481]
     60:01.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     60:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     60:03.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     60:04.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     60:05.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     60:07.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     60:07.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to bus[E:B] [1022:1484]
     60:08.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1482]
     60:08.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to bus[E:B] [1022:1484]
     61:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Function [1022:148a]
     62:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP [1022:1485]
     
* USB devices (lsusb):
     Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
     Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:5411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5411 Hub
     Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5411 Hub
     Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
     Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
     Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:0411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Hub
     Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:0411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Hub
     Bus 002 Device 004: ID 24a9:205a          USB DISK
     Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
     Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
     Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
     Bus 005 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
     Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0414:a000 Giga-Byte Technology Co., Ltd USB Audio
     Bus 005 Device 004: ID 8087:0029 Intel Corp. AX200 Bluetooth
     Bus 005 Device 005: ID 048d:8297 Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT8297 RGB LED Controller
     Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
     Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
     Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0414:a001 Giga-Byte Technology Co., Ltd USB Audio
     Bus 007 Device 003: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
     Bus 007 Device 004: ID 1b1c:0c1c Corsair CORSAIR iCUE Commander CORE
     Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
     
* PCI Video Card (lspci |  grep -i -E 'vga' | cut -b1-7 | xargs -i lspci -vnnks {} | grep -v "<access denied>"):
     23:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] [1002:73ff] (rev c7) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     	Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device [1849:5217]
     	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 123, IOMMU group 28
     	Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
     	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
     	I/O ports at 6000 [size=256]
     	Memory at d1d00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
     	Expansion ROM at d1e00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
     	Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
     	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
     	Capabilities: [64] Express Legacy Endpoint, IntMsgNum 0
     	Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
     	Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
     	Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
     	Capabilities: [200] Physical Resizable BAR
     	Capabilities: [240] Power Budgeting <?>
     	Capabilities: [270] Secondary PCI Express
     	Capabilities: [2a0] Access Control Services
     	Capabilities: [2d0] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
     	Capabilities: [320] Latency Tolerance Reporting
     	Capabilities: [410] Physical Layer 16.0 GT/s
     	Capabilities: [440] Lane Margining at the Receiver
     	Kernel driver in use: amdgpu

* GL Support (without results: "glxinfo -B | grep -E "OpenGL version|OpenGL renderer""):
     N/A

* DRM Information (journalctl -k -b --no-hostname | grep -o 'kernel:.*drm.*$' | cut -d ' ' -f 2- ):
     [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.
     fb0: switching to amdgpudrmfb from EFI VGA
     [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (DIMGREY_CAVEFISH 0x1002:0x73FF 0x1849:0x5217 0xC7).
     [drm] register mmio base: 0xD1D00000
     [drm] register mmio size: 1048576
     [drm] add ip block number 0 <nv_common>
     [drm] add ip block number 1 <gmc_v10_0>
     [drm] add ip block number 2 <navi10_ih>
     [drm] add ip block number 3 <psp>
     [drm] add ip block number 4 <smu>
     [drm] add ip block number 5 <dm>
     [drm] add ip block number 6 <gfx_v10_0>
     [drm] add ip block number 7 <sdma_v5_2>
     [drm] add ip block number 8 <vcn_v3_0>
     [drm] add ip block number 9 <jpeg_v3_0>
     [drm] VCN(0) decode is enabled in VM mode
     [drm] VCN(0) encode is enabled in VM mode
     [drm] JPEG decode is enabled in VM mode
     [drm] vm size is 262144 GB, 4 levels, block size is 9-bit, fragment size is 9-bit
     [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=8176M, BAR=256M
     [drm] RAM width 128bits GDDR6
     [drm] amdgpu: 8176M of VRAM memory ready
     [drm] amdgpu: 8176M of GTT memory ready.
     [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
     [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000008000300000).
     [drm] Loading DMUB firmware via PSP: version=0x02020003
     [drm] use_doorbell being set to: [true]
     [drm] use_doorbell being set to: [true]
     [drm] Found VCN firmware Version ENC: 1.13 DEC: 2 VEP: 0 Revision: 42
     [drm] reserve 0xa00000 from 0x81fe000000 for PSP TMR
     [drm] Display Core initialized with v3.2.141!
     [drm] DMUB hardware initialized: version=0x02020003
     [drm] REG_WAIT timeout 1us * 100000 tries - mpc2_assert_idle_mpcc line:479
     [drm] kiq ring mec 2 pipe 1 q 0
     [drm] VCN decode and encode initialized successfully(under DPG Mode).
     [drm] JPEG decode initialized successfully.
     [drm] fb mappable at 0xC05DF000
     [drm] vram apper at 0xC0000000
     [drm] size 14745600
     [drm] fb depth is 24
     [drm]    pitch is 10240
     amdgpu 0000:23:00.0: [drm] fb0: amdgpu frame buffer device
     [drm] Initialized amdgpu 3.42.0 20150101 for 0000:23:00.0 on minor 0
     [drm] REG_WAIT timeout 1us * 100000 tries - mpc2_assert_idle_mpcc line:479
     
* Xorg modules (grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d \" -f 2 | xargs):

* Xorg errors (without results: "grep '^\[.*(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d ':' -f 2- "):
     N/A

* PCI Audio devices (lspci |  grep -i -E 'audio' | cut -b1-7 | xargs -i lspci -vnnks {} | grep -v "<access denied>"):
     23:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller [1002:ab28] (prog-if 00 [HDA compatible])
     	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller [1002:ab28]
     	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 255, IOMMU group 29
     	Memory at d1e20000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16K]
     	Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
     	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
     	Capabilities: [64] Express Legacy Endpoint, IntMsgNum 0
     	Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
     	Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
     	Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
     	Capabilities: [2a0] Access Control Services
     
     25:00.4 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller [1022:1487] (prog-if 00 [HDA compatible])
     	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:d102]
     	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 255, IOMMU group 34
     	Memory at d1c00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=32K]
     	Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
     	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
     	Capabilities: [64] Express Endpoint, IntMsgNum 0
     	Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
     	Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
     	Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
     	Capabilities: [2a0] Access Control Services
     	Capabilities: [370] Transaction Processing Hints

* PCI Network devices (lspci |  grep -i -E 'net' | cut -b1-7 | xargs -i lspci -vnnks {} | grep -v "<access denied>"):
     43:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1539] (rev 03)
     	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:e000]
     	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 53, IOMMU group 52
     	Memory at d6f00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
     	I/O ports at 9000 [size=32]
     	Memory at d6f20000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
     	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
     	Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
     	Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=5 Masked-
     	Capabilities: [a0] Express Endpoint, IntMsgNum 0
     	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
     	Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number d8-5e-d3-ff-ff-06-cd-ab
     	Capabilities: [1a0] Transaction Processing Hints
     	Kernel driver in use: igb
     
     44:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Aquantia Corp. AQC111 NBase-T/IEEE 802.3bz Ethernet Controller [AQtion] [1d6a:11b1] (rev 02)
     	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:e000]
     	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 51, IOMMU group 53
     	Memory at d6840000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
     	Memory at d6850000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
     	Memory at d6400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
     	Expansion ROM at d6800000 [disabled] [size=256K]
     	Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, IntMsgNum 0
     	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 3
     	Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=32 Masked-
     	Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable- 64bit+
     	Capabilities: [c0] Vital Product Data
     	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
     	Capabilities: [150] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
     	Capabilities: [180] Secondary PCI Express
     	Kernel driver in use: atlantic
     
     45:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 [8086:2723] (rev 1a)
     	DeviceName: Onboard LAN RTL8125
     	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200NGW [8086:0084]
     	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 255, IOMMU group 54
     	Memory at d6e00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16K]
     	Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
     	Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
     	Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, IntMsgNum 0
     	Capabilities: [80] MSI-X: Enable- Count=16 Masked-
     	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
     	Capabilities: [14c] Latency Tolerance Reporting
     	Capabilities: [154] L1 PM Substates

* Network status (ip -br addr | awk '{print $1" " $2}' | column -t):
     lo       UNKNOWN
     enp67s0  UP
     enp68s0  DOWN
     
* EFI boot manager output (efibootmgr -v):
     BootCurrent: 0001
     Timeout: 1 seconds
     BootOrder: 0001
     Boot0001* Fedora	HD(1,GPT,946bcaff-710b-467d-ac9d-e21008661f23,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI\FEDORA\SHIM.EFI0000424f
           dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 12 00 00 00 00 00 ff ca 6b 94 0b 71 7d 46 ac 9d e2 10 08 66 1f 23 02 02 / 04 04 2e 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 46 00 45 00 44 00 4f 00 52 00 41 00 5c 00 53 00 48 00 49 00 4d 00 2e 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
         data: 00 00 42 4f

The 2026.07.01 archlinux installer ISO boots right up without a problem (uname -r: 7.0.14-arch1-1) and I can use that to enter my broken fedora install using arch-chroot, but trying to run fpaste from there freezes the system. Trying to run dmesg -w & strace fpaste --sysinfo --printonly to figure out why that happens freezes in the middle of a line of output (before it would’ve shown whatever the problem actually was).

I’ve got Memtest86+ running as I write this (15% and no errors so far) because I am entirely out of ideas.

[pg-tips (P G)]

@drmoose

I tried to upgrade my system from 43 to 44, but my EFI partition ran out of space during the process and I ended up without a bootloader.

Are you sure it was the EFI partition on disk that ran out of space, and not the EFI NVRAM?

On a normal Fedora installation, updates and upgrades should not increase the amount of data stored on the EFI partition.

[drmoose]

Yes. When I was initially trying to recover it, I booted via arch-chroot and df -h /boot/efi was at 100%. For reasons that I never adequately diagnosed, dracut had been writing vmlinuz images to the efi partition. Deleting those by hand and redoing dracut, kernel-install, and grub-mkconfig put them in /boot where they’re supposed to be so… stuck config I guess? At that point I was able to dnf reinstall grub2-efi-'*' to get the grub menu to appear as normal.

[pg-tips (P G)]

@drmoose

For reasons that I never adequately diagnosed, dracut had been writing vmlinuz images to the efi partition.

That sounds like this issue:

F39 kernels fail to install when /boot/efi/$machineid is present

Problem On certain Fedora systems, which have been installed a long time ago (multiple years) and continuously upgraded, new Fedora 39 kernel packages may fail to install (and then fail to appear in the GRUB bootloader menu, when displayed). The error during kernel installation might look like this: Running scriptlet: kernel-core-6.5.9-300.fc39.x86_64 2/2 /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/51-dracut-rescue.install: line 81: /boot/efi/loader/entries/1604a63a532947d99d18bf17a754e8…

Back to the original question anyway! I’m sorry, I can’t think of any diagnostic steps you haven’t already tried.

Let’s see if others have ideas.

[drmoose]

An important detail may have been in the part of fpaste i cut out for brevity:

* Last few reboots (last -x -n10 reboot runlevel):
     ...
    reboot   system boot  6.12.15-200.fc4* Thu Jul  2 20:30 - 20:47  (00:17)

Even though I followed the guide and did a full dnf upgrade on fc43 before trying to do the release version upgrade, the “can’t install kernels because EFI is full” seems to have been going on long enough that my most recent successful Fedora boot was on kernel 6.12.15.

The oldest kernel package available for fc44 is 6.19.8, so I booted to my chroot and tried installing that instead of 7.xxx. Sadly, that didn’t work either.

[drmoose]

Using archived ISOs, I find I can boot fc40 and fc41, but not fc42. fc42 fails with a different symptom than 43 and 44 – the latter just hang at the screenshot in my original post (the cursor at the bottom doesn’t even flash). 42 prints the customary IOMMU error dmesg entries and then stops with the cursor at the bottom still flashing.

But, in the meantime, I’ve now got my system working in perhaps the craziest way possible: I copied Arch’s kernel off the arch installer iso into /boot, copied its /var/lib/modules entry onto my hard drive, ran kernel-install -v add 7.0.14-arch1-1 /usr/lib/modules/7.0.14-arch1-1/vmlinuz from the chroot to generate a grub entry for it, and now I can boot “Fedora 44” with the arch kernel underneath. No selinux support, naturally, but it’s a usable system otherwise.

I can live with this hack for now, but would like to get back to a real Fedora kernel if possible, so this thread remains unresolved. I’m happy to test any other configuration someone may suggest.

[digitalman (Guy)]

Please post the output of “inxi -Fzxx” as pre-formatted text so we can see what hardware you have. You may have to install inxi with “sudo dnf install inxi” first.

I wanted to see if you have an old Nvidia GPU and the live USB not working could be this issue I reported here:

Black Screen on F44 Live USB with old Nvidia

Yes, I know. Another Nvidia black screen post. Sorry. I have an old system with the following GPU. This was captured when I booted the live install and selected basic graphics mode. Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] vendor: EVGA driver: N/A arch: Kepler-2 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1180 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: swrast gpu…

[drmoose]

@digitalman

I wanted to see if you have an old Nvidia GPU

Nope! AMD CPU with no integrated graphics + AMD Radeon 6600 graphics card. Those model numbers were included in the fpaste in my original post, but since you asked here’s

Output of inxi -Fzxx

System:
  Kernel: 6.11.4-301.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: LXQt v: 2.4.1 tk: Qt v: 6.11.1 wm: Openbox dm: SDDM Distro: Fedora
    Linux 44 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: TRX40 AORUS MASTER v: -CF
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: TRX40 AORUS MASTER serial: <superuser required>
    Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC. v: FEh date: 11/21/2025
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 Plus
    serial: <filter> charge: 50% (should be ignored) status: N/A
CPU:
  Info: 24-core model: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Zen 2 rev: 0 cache: L1: 1.5 MiB L2: 12 MiB L3: 128 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 550 min/max: 550/4569 boost: disabled cores: 1: 550
    2: 550 3: 550 4: 550 5: 550 6: 550 7: 550 8: 550 9: 550 10: 550 11: 550
    12: 550 13: 550 14: 550 15: 550 16: 550 17: 550 18: 550 19: 550 20: 550
    21: 550 22: 550 23: 550 24: 550 bogomips: 182410
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
    ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600
    XT/6600M] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie:
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,
    Writeback-1 bus-ID: 23:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ff
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.23 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.12 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
    dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 model: HP 27mq res: 2560x1440 hz: 60
    dpi: 109 diag: 685mm (27")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.1.3 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6600 (radeonsi navi23 ACO DRM
    3.59 6.11.4-301.fc41.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:73ff
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
  Info: Tools: api: glxinfo de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor x11: xdriinfo,
    xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 23:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 25:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
  Device-3: Giga-Byte USB Audio driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 5-6:3 chip-ID: 0414:a000
  Device-4: Giga-Byte USB Audio driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 7-5:2 chip-ID: 0414:a001
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.4-301.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: igb v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 9000 bus-ID: 43:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539
  IF: enp67s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 44:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723
  IF: wlo2 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: br0 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-3: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-4: vnet0 state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 5-4.1:4 chip-ID: 8087:0029
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
    lmp-v: 11
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 38.43 TiB used: 1.47 TiB (3.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Mushkin model: MKNSSDPE2TB-D8 size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 42.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: HDWG62AUZSVA size: 18.19 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: MZ7LN256HCHP-000L7 size: 238.47 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 27 C
  ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST20000VE002-3G9101 size: 18.19 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 1.82 TiB used: 1.46 TiB (80.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
    mapped: luks-6656f279-0345-4788-9a45-ffed39c0bbe8
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 892.1 MiB (91.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 209 MiB (34.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 1.82 TiB used: 1.46 TiB (80.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
    mapped: luks-6656f279-0345-4788-9a45-ffed39c0bbe8
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 41.0 C
    mem: 40.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 256 GiB note: est. available: 251.57 GiB
    used: 69.41 GiB (27.6%)
  Processes: 668 Power: uptime: 14h 43m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 259
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 7 Compilers:
    clang: 22.1.8 alt: 18 gcc: 16.1.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: terminator
    inxi: 3.3.40

That was run on an otherwise-up-to-date fc44 with kernel 6.11.4-301.fc41.x86_64, which I downgraded to after the arch-kernel+fedora-userland frankenstein setup I was running yesterday turned out to be unstable (some commands would caused a systemwide freeze).