Issue in Grub after installing fedora 41

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After installing fedora 41 from the software app, while in the middle of installation, I have taken off the power supply since the installation is taking more than 1hr 40mins time. later I can’t able to get the fedora 41 and got this many instances.

Can anyone help me with these ?

I am using dual boot with windows 10. I can able to log into windows 10.

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If I click enter this is the screen, i was able to view, it does not take me anywhere
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Are you able to boot with one of the f40 kernels?

It is always risky to interrupt a software upgrade since (with the gui) it is difficult where the upgrade is in the process.
It seems possible that it was performing the final stages of the upgrade and that the grub config had not completed or the dracut process had not finalized the initramfs stage. It definitely had not removed all the entries for the oldest kernel.

If you are able to boot to one of the older kernels recovery may be made from there, and if not then booting from the live install media could enable recovery.

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Now I was able to login into the fedora 41 recuse boot, after seeing in the settings it’s clear that the software now i has is fedora 41, but all the above kernels are also available when booting the system. How can I remove this extra kernels ??

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@computersavvy has helped with the hard part.

You can take a look here: Upgrading Fedora Linux Using DNF System Plugin :: Fedora Docs for help on removing old kernels.

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The system by default retains the latest 3 kernels. to allow the system to automatically adjust the number of kernels installed simply run (from the command line) sudo dnf reinstall kernel*6.11.5*. This should properly reinstall that kernel and also remove the oldest kernel so only 3 are still still showing in the grub boot menu.

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Also, since the OP is cleaning up old kernels, they might want to consider updating their rescue kernel: Update rescue image? - #4 by vgaetera

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after trying the command, the grub does not show at all during the boot up. It directly loads the latest kernel. so that i can’t choose which OS to load. what should i do know.

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i have used the sudo dnf reinstall kernel*6.11.5* command and also the
sudo rm -f /boot/*-rescue-* sudo kernel-install add $(uname -r) /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz
commands.