Have you tried booting with the USB device removed to eliminate that possibility?
Gave that a whirl, no luck unfortunately.
Have you tried to do a “dnf upgrade”
I hadn’t yet since upgrading to F33, but I now tried “sudo dnf upgrade” while booted from F32’s 5.9.16. It upgraded to 5.10.7. Still the Invalid Format error upon reboot into 5.10.7.
or “dnf erase kernel5.10.6” followed by “dnf upgrade”, while booted from the kernel that does work?
Since I did the “dnf update” already, I needed to erase 2 kernels:
$ sudo dnf erase kernel*5.10.7*
$ sudo dnf erase kernel*5.10.6*
$ sudo reboot # then chose F32's 5.9.16 from grub menu
$ sudo dnf upgrade
$ sudo reboot # then chose F33's 5.10.7 from grub menu
Unfortunately same result. At this point, I only have 5.10.7 and 5.9.16
However… I did just notice after these steps, I was able to ssh into the box successfully while the “Invalid Format” graphic was up on the box’s display. I then ran the commands again from @vgaetera. All the filesystems still look to be there also.
$ lsblk -o +FSTYPE,UUID; cat /etc/default/grub; grep -v -e ^# -e ^$ /etc/fstab
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT FSTYPE UUID
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi vfat 11E9-576B
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot ext4 96618861-e388-4bc8-ad09-9512be41aee2
└─sda3 8:3 0 464.6G 0 part LVM2_member dKEbqt-QeKt-3RzZ-8pdx-IRbT-hzQu-YFaCAz
├─fedora-root 253:0 0 15G 0 lvm / xfs ffc47ab5-5082-4137-b61f-d7cb8ac3c7fb
└─fedora-swap 253:1 0 7.9G 0 lvm [SWAP] swap 3bfe86d2-2861-41e3-92a9-b9068e0be287
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part /media/usbdrive xfs e221b68a-fe29-4171-b47e-af5cbc8c9fac
zram0 252:0 0 4G 0 disk [SWAP]
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=/dev/mapper/fedora-swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rhgb quiet pci=noaer"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true
/dev/mapper/fedora-root / xfs defaults 0 0
UUID=96618861-e388-4bc8-ad09-9512be41aee2 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=11E9-576B /boot/efi vfat umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2
/dev/mapper/fedora-swap swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=e221b68a-fe29-4171-b47e-af5cbc8c9fac /media/usbdrive xfs defaults 0 2
Have you run fsck on /dev/mapper/fedora-root and the /boot device while booted from the live USB just in case?
I wish I could check this. My BIOS is resisting me on booting from a USB or SD card.
While making the live image though, I was able to successfully download the F33 Server iso from my laptop to /media/usbdrive on my F33 box via a Samba share pointing to that location. So, smbd and the external drive’s XFS filesystem also appear to be working fine under 5.7.10. While ssh’d into the box, I was also able to create the image with that iso file.
$ uname -a
Linux zbox.home.lan 5.10.7-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 12 20:20:11 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ ls -l /media/usbdrive/downloads/Fe*
-rw-rw-r--. 1 samba media 2076180480 Jan 17 12:07 /media/usbdrive/downloads/Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-33-1.2.iso
$ sudo dnf install livecd-tools
$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr /media/usbdrive/downloads/Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-33-1.2.iso /dev/sdc
$ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/sdcard
$ ls -l /media/sdcard
total 40
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Jan 17 13:15 EFI
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Jan 17 13:15 images
drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Jan 17 13:14 lost+found
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 95 Jan 17 13:15 media.repo
dr-xr-xr-x. 28 root root 4096 Jan 17 13:15 Packages
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 13:15 repodata
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 13:18 syslinux
$ sudo umount /media/sdcard
So with the above abilities, I’m wondering if the filesystems may be ok and “Invalid Format” refers to something else? Is there a way to dismiss the moving animated graphic and see the console or look at a log somewhere while ssh’d into the box?
