Fedora 43.3 gets stuck on boot/loading screen (Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro 360)


Switches from being able to show the terminal with esc, over to the loading screen with a stuck circle.

It appears that your wifi is unsupported (or at least it’s not coming up correctly) which causes network manager to wait indefinitely for the network to start.

Can you turn the wifi card off from the BIOS to determine if that allows you to progress further?

I’m not able to, there seems to be no setting for the wi-fi or the card except for the MAC address pass through.

The Galaxy Book models require some tweaking to work - it is possible you’ll have to do some research.

Here’s a first hint

Good luck :slight_smile:

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Samsung documentation says to use Windows Settings to manage wifi. https://github.com/jusqua/galaxy-book4-linux is dedicated to Fedora on this model and recommends dual booting to get firmware updates.

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You have the option of blacklisting the iwlwifi module at the kernel level by editing the kernel parameters to add modprobe.blacklist=iwlwifi, but of course that means that the Wi-Fi drivers are not loaded at all, and you’ll have no Wi-Fi connectivity when you finally do boot.

Do you have the ability to use an Ethernet cable to gain some connectivity to the network post boot, so that you can apply any outstanding patches and maybe a firmware update via fwupdmgr?

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Different approach can you go to windows and shutdown it boot your galaxy press esc button to get grub menu and select fedora last kernel (default one – first from list ) See any difference or you successfully boot your system

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