Computer fails to boot after kernel update (kinoite f41)

Hi all,

So this started with the updated from 6.14.4-200 to 6.14.5-300, I was hoping it would resolve itself. However the issue still persists. I tried rebasing to f42, f41-updates, and f42-updates and nothing has changed. I have my last working deployment pinned and it continues to function normally.

The computer is a Dell Inspiron 7500 2n1. I saw a similar issue with newer dell models, and a upgraded BIOS from dell that solves the issue but that option is not available for this model.

Whenever I boot into the newer kernels, the process stops at the Dell screen. Hitting escape does nothing, I tried to set kernel parameters with various permutations of

rd.shell rd.debug rd.break=cmdline loglevel=7

No matter what I do, it just sits there, gives no log or output whatsoever. I’ve left it for as long as 6 hours and nothing changes. It seems like it not even getting to the initramfs step. I’ve also tried rebuilding the initramfs and that didn’t help (this was after realizing that /boot isn’t immutable :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:).

What can I do to get some more info out of the system? Should I try building a vanilla kernel? I’m really at my wits end here.

I am not familiar with the atomic versions, install the 6.14.4-300.fc42 kernel if available. This is quite old and superseded kernel version by now.
see bodhi: list of kernels for f42

If you have a working deployment, can you check the output of systemctl on your system to see if any service failed there?

The only service that failed was logrotate, interestingly it failed because it lacks permissions for the file /var/log/boot.log

However it didn’t fail after my last boot. Also checking boot.log only shows logs for boots for my old, working deployment.