Having been running Fedora for ten years without too much trouble I can’t get Fedora 31 to run, even from a Live USB. Hope I’ve supplied enough information for somebody to know why; if more needed please ask.
History :-
Upgraded from F30 to F31 using dnf and desktop PC wouldn’t boot
Reverted to F30 having found an iso on internet
(Why aren’t old but live isos available on Fedora site)
The Problem :-
Created Live F31 USB – (it does run on other computers)
It won’t run on desktop PC
I assume there must be some sort of hardware incompatibility
What happens :-
Starts boot
Run “Test this media & start Fedora-Workstation-Live 31”
Options :-
vmlinuz
initrd=initrd.img
root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-WS-Live-31-1-9
rd.live.image
rd.live.check
quiet
Media check OK
Screen scrolls what is happening – no apparent problems apart from :-
… dracut-pre-pivot[871] Feb 24 10:49:50 | …
[14.437552] … as above … /etc/multipath.conf does not exist, blacklisting all devices.
[14.437846] … as above … You can run “/sbin/mpath.conf –enable” to create
[14.438065] … as above … /etc/multipath.conf . See man mpathconf(8) for more During the output screen resolution changes
Last shown (something like) :-
Started GNOME Display Manager
Started OK Client Server
Started MPT Client Server
Long wait with blank screen
Screen flashes up previous list
Long wait with blank screen
Flashes message saying “Oh no! Something has gone wrong”
Shows “Try Fedora/Install to Hard Drive” screen
No mouse icon but effect can be seen when hovering over options
Click on “Try Fedora”
Displays screen about being able to install to hard drive later
Occasionally responds to Return on keyboard but then appears to go into loop
Blank screen
Flashes two messages
First not displayed long enough to read
Second “Oh no! Something has gone wrong”
Shows “Try Fedora/Install to Hard Drive” screen
No mouse icon but effect can be seen when hovering over options
Displays screen about being able to install to hard drive later
Pressing ESC brings up “Oh no” Something has gone wrong” screen with Log Out option
The Computer :-
Make/Model :- Shuttle SG33G5 – Purchased 2010
~ $ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s): 4
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 23
Model name: Intel(R) Core™2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz
BogoMIPS: 5338.39
Virtualization: VT-x
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority dtherm
~ $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IH (ICH9DH) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
01:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 IDE controller
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
03:09.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
03:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx]
~ $ sudo dmidecode -t bios
dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.5 present.
Wrong DMI structures length: 948 bytes announced, only 942 bytes available.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Version: 6.00 PG
Release Date: 04/25/2008
Address: 0xE0000
Runtime Size: 128 kB
ROM Size: 1024 kB
Characteristics:
ISA is supported
PCI is supported
PNP is supported
APM is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
Boot from CD is supported
Selectable boot is supported
BIOS ROM is socketed
EDD is supported
5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Printer services are supported (int 17h)
CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported
LS-120 boot is supported
ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Targeted content distribution is supported
Invalid entry length (0). DMI table is broken! Stop.