This week’s updates have incrementally made my system take longer to boot since the update that brought in kernel 7.0.9.202, and today’s update with 7.0.9.205 no longer boots at all.
each update brought with it 3 grey squares on boot instead of the fedora logo+ uefi logo, and the first time this happened, boot took about 20 seconds longer. now the system won’t boot at all. I’ve left it on for 20 minutes, and the screen either goes black, or goes grey, or the grey squares still show up. this varies on boot attempt, but the constant is that it won’t boot. I managed to get a boot by selecting kernel 202, but this no longer works, the system just completely hangs on those grey squares. I tried to enter the fedora rescue boot entry in the grub menu, but the same thing happens, grey squares of doom that won’t let the system boot.
i searched for this, and there’s a reddit post from last night with a similar issue, they claim fedora 44 but a much older kernel. Other people also mention the grey squares, but their problems were with nvidia drivers. I have an AMD gpu, no integrated graphics, and system was booting fine just a few days ago.
I have a windows install in another drive, and it boots fine, so hardware is fine, but fedora 44 is my daily driver and i need it working.
i got journalctl logs, but they show up as a continuous log, as if the previous boot never closed, so i haven’t found the other boot attempts in there.
pressing esc to try to see boot messages does nothing. I press num lock to see if the system is somewhat responsive, and the LED can take anywhere from 20 seconds to a few minutes to respond to the input, and sometimes it never responds to input.
any idea what might be happening?
i should also mention that this f44 install is on a pcie4 nvme drive, and up until this week, boot never took longer than 35-ish seconds. windows claims the drive is healthy.
thank you!
