I’m installing Fedora 42 Workstation on an older Dell XPS 8940 computer, in a dual boot mode with Windows 10. It had Win10 originally and I installed Fedora on a separate disk. Grub seems to allow me to boot either system, and Fedora comes up with a nice looking screen. It starts out asking a bunch of questions, ending with the timezone request. I select Detroit, Michigan and click on Next. At that point, it does a hard crash and freezes. All I can do is push the power button. If I boot Fedora again, it repeats the sequence and freezes at the same point.
Tim
This comment in Bugzilla suggests that clicking on the map to choose the timezone (rather than searching for a city) is a workaround. Does that help in your case?
That was exactly the problem. I wouldn’t have thought of clicking on a tiny world map, which I thought was just a fluff piece of artwork, when the search dropdown box failed to work. It was especially confusing when the search box displayed the proper time zone when I clicked on the closest city.
To have Workstation crash & burn on an initial, clean install (using just the default values) is quite unbelievable. I really, really hope that there are a lot of red faces at Fedora over this.
Thanks to everyone to worked this out.
Tim