Not sure what that means. If you just added a hash at the start of a line in /etc/fstab, did you then “run systemctl daemon-reload’ to update systemd units generated from this file”?
When reporting a problem, it is best to include enough detail to allow others to reproduce the issue. You don’t mention the Fedora version.
You need to find the error message for your issue. Try pressing <Esc> when booting to see text messages on the console, or used the grub2 editor to add <space>3 at the end of the kernel command line. If those don’t let you see the error, you can boot the Live USB installer, mount the system root drive, and use journalctl -D ... to view entries from the system drive.
Hey, apologies for the missed info.
I’m on Fedora 42 (KDE).
System Specs: i5-2500
GPU: NVidia GTX 750 Ti
RAM: 8GB DDR3
Here is what I did step by step:
- Install Fedora on a blank 1TB BX500 Crucial SATA 3SSD using automatic partitioning
- Update using
sudo dnf update - Reboot. System works fine after reboot
- I have another 1TB HDD on my PC with some files, but I don’t want any access to them. So, I masked them, using:
sudo systemctl mask dev-sda2.devicesudo systemctl mask dev-sda3.devicesudo systemctl mask dev-sda4.device
- I have an Intel router for Wi-Fi. It works but only when I plug in and out the router after logging in to my desktop environment, so I ran
echo 'add_drivers+=" e1000e "' | sudo tee /etc/dracut.conf.d/e1000e.conf - I kept getting an error showing Failed to open \EFI\fedora\ - Not found (This error was since the start of the install even before all the changes, but I ignored it since it didn’t seem to cause any problems). I noticed that if I change the GRUB timeout style to 0, it doesn’t seem to appear, so I did the changes using these commands:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub- Only changed
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0and addedGRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden - Regenerated the config using
sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
- Regenerated initramfs since I changed it before using
sudo dracut -f - Rebooted System
Now, when I reboot, I go to the login screen (where we enter the password) fine and the GUI is visible properly but after entering the password I’m unable to see anything. All I see is a black and white screen. The black screen covers approximate 1/5th of top of the screen and the rest below is white.
When I try to go to TTY using CTRL+SHIFT+FN I get redirected back to the working-as-expected login screen
I tried to reboot and press esc, and here’s what I got
I tried to use ls to see all the drives. It worked but I was unable to navigate to any of the drives below:
I cannot use the Live USB to see the contents because I have a weird problem where even if I change the boot order, it always boots into the main OS on the SSD instead of the USB stick, and if I plug in the SSD after it boots up from the Live USB, it is unable to detect it.
This part is a separate problem, I’ll work on this later.
If I do a clean install, what do I have to do to make sure this doesn’t occur again is what I’m after
At this point, booting from the Live USB gives the best chance of finding the relevant error messages using journalctl -D ... to see messages on the system drive.
Many EUFI/BIOS’s have the option to enable/disable boot from USB (to prevent cubicle farm workers from booting a USB to play games on company time).