Hi, Im new to linux, fresh installed Fedora 43 KDE Plasma yesterday, coming from Windows 10 with Intel i5. The computer is a Dell Latitude E7240.
It worked at first, but as soon as Fedora was installed, I entered the preferences windows and saw a notification saying there were 2 updates ready for the system (I downloaded the ISO that same day, from the official site). I started the download, set it to turn off after it finnishes, and went to bed. This morning the OS wouldn´t boot, so Im assuming this is some bug in the latest update.
I keep getting this grub menu, and tried both the uper options, but they load the Dell and Fedora logos and get me a black screen with a tiny white line at the top left…
I tried replacing the OS again, but I get a different grub menu where it lets me write code, and it won´t get passed that. I changed the secure boot option, the legacy/UEFI option, but it no longer reads the bootable usb, not with Esc, F2, nor F12.
I also tried to delete the “quiet” at the end of the line starting with “linux”, but nope.
So… It basically just loads, brings the grub menu, whatever option I chose, it loads again and freezes in a black screen with a white line at the top. Doesn´t read the same bootable device I already used (Ventoy).
Select the first option - kernel 6.17 and as the Fedora logo appears, tap escape a few times - that will remove the plymouth splash screen and let you see all of the journal messages which take place behind that splash screen.
Show us what the last thing to appear is when everything grinds to a halt.
When it DOES grind to a halt, his Ctrl+Alt+F4 and see if you get a terminal prompting for your username and password. Enter your username and password - make sure you can log in. Don’t need to do anything yet - we just want to see if you can get to a terminal and log in at this point.
Then I put my passphrase. Then it tried loading and got to a black screen again. I shut it down and tried again several times. The other times the text sometimes changes a bit, like this one:
Hi, so I finally couldn’t fix it, so I took out the SSD, format it from another computer using an mSATA-SATA adapter connected, in turn, to a SATA-USB wire; put it back inside the older computer and reinstalled Fedora from scratch.
Things I did different this time:
-Format the bootable device in FAT32 instead of exFAT.
-Denied the third party packages at the end of the installer.
-Updated the system packages through the console (previously, I did it through the settings window), and nothing has gone wrong yet.
