My laptop is not booting after a regular (not version) update of Fedora 42 Workstation. My machine i7 AMD has 16gb RAM and only one SSD hard drive.
Find attached a picture. I don’t know what to do! My disk is encrypted.
Thank you for your attention and your help
Toni
Could it that your /boot partition is full, and hence initramfs couldn’t be generated for the latest kernel?
Can you boot with a previous kernel?
Yiaay it worked, thank you SO MUCH.
I feel stupid I did not tried that, I guess I just panicked. Grub goes really fast and I forgot I have that option if I pay attention and rush to it.
After booting in a previous kernel the update finished, and I rebooted twice just to check. I am writing this lines from my laptop.
I googled how to check how many firmwares I have and this is what I got:
toniblanco@fedora:~$ rpm -qa kernel
kernel-6.17.5-200.fc42.x86_64
kernel-6.17.6-200.fc42.x86_64
kernel-6.17.7-200.fc42.x86_64
I found this related thread. Since having older kernels saved me this time, I am reluctant to erase the old ones to free /boot partition space. Is there any other way to free space I missed?
Again, thank you so much for your help.
Toni
Glad to hear it got sorted out.
Initrams got bigger recently, hence new F43 installations default now to a 2GB /boot partition size. Not the case with upgrades though, obviously.
To increase the boot partition might be tricky, but you could go with 2 kernels installed instead of 3, or get rid of the rescue kernel. See similar thread for details.
