So I’ve been trying to install Fedora on my Laptop and after installing it, it boots fine for the first time. I install a few packages and then restart the system. But for some reason, it doesn’t start after the first boot. It shows an error message for a split second and then the screen goes black with only a white _ in the top left corner (not flashing, it’s constant). Keyboard and mouse input doesn’t do anything. I don’t have the full error message because it disappears too quickly for me to read it, and recording my screen with the phone is blurry.
[FAILED] Failed to start (illegible)-setup.serv.nitial Setup configuration program.
I have reinstalled Fedora after flashing the iso to my usb again (same usb though) and it was the same. First boot went fine, but when I restarted the laptop it just got me the same error message. It’s a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5, and I’m trying to install the KDE version of Fedora.
Edit: Forgot to mention that the BIOS image appears so this isn’t a problem with that. Secure Boot is disabled too. Grub also works just fine but the recovery option gives the same error as Fedora.
Also the packages I installed were neovim, snap and tldr. I also changed the .bashrc file
You can try typing ESC and see if you can see messages.
You can try booting up and editing the grub entry to remove quiet and
rhbg from the command line.
Can you now see the error message?
Pressing escape doesn’t do anything either. I’ve removed quiet and rhbg which made grub print everything it’s doing. Most text was white and there was some cyan text. It said OK on everything except the cyan text (no failed either) and the last line which was [FAILED] Failed to start initial-setup.service - Initial Setup configuration program. (Got a better image this time so I’m certain this is the exact error message)
Can you get to a console with ctrl-alt-f3?
It seems odd that initial-setup.service would run after the first boot of an installed system. If initial-setup.service is successful it should be disabled so it doesn’t run once the setup is complete. Services are enabled by putting a symbolic link in /etc/systemd/system. You could check this in the live installer environment by mounting the system disk.