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Hi. I was trying to install the latest Fedora 42 i3 spin (Fedora-i3-Live-x86_64-42-1.1.iso) and when I was playing with Virtualbox everything was fine, but it didn’t work on bare metal.

I verified the checksums, prepared a usb stick with org.fedoraproject.MediaWriter and added partitions:

  • 1GB ext4 Mountpoint: /boot
  • 200MB vfat Mountpoint: /boot/efi
  • 65GB luks2 → btrs:
    • subvolume
      Label: @ Mountpoint: /
    • subvolume
      Label: @home Mountpoint: /home

The only difference with Virtualbox is that I haven’t added a biosboot partition since there were no errors.
P.S. If I choose automatic partitioning, the result is the same - grub console without anything

Hardware: Kernel: 6.14.5-100.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1

Desktop: i3 v: 4.24 Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (Forty)

Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF B450-PLUS GAMING v: Rev X.0x
serial: UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4604
date: 03/22/2024

CPU:
Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3950 min/max: 550/4618 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3950
2: 3950 3: 3950 4: 3950 5: 3950 6: 3950 7: 3950 8: 3950 9: 3950 10: 3950
11: 3950 12: 3950 bogomips: 94800
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 33 [Radeon RX 7600/7600
XT/7600M XT/7600S/7700S / PRO W7600] vendor: Sapphire driver: amdgpu
v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 bus-ID: 0a:00.0
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
resolution: 1920x1080~75Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.1.7 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7600 (radeonsi navi33 LLVM
18.1.6 DRM 3.61 6.14.5-100.fc40.x86_64)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 drivers: radv,llvmpipe surfaces: xcb,xlib
devices: 2
Info: Tools: api: glxinfo,vulkaninfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop,
xrandr

Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.1
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0c:00.4
API: ALSA v: k6.14.5-100.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.9 status: active

Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK RTL8111H driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:

Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.59 TiB used: 741.09 GiB (45.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM002-1BD142 size: 465.76 GiB
temp: 25 C
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
temp: 28 C
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DL002-9TT153 size: 931.51 GiB
temp: 28 C

inxi: 3.3.38
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Do you run NVIDIA graphics? Do you have secure boot enabled?

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AMD and secure boot is disabled. However, I have an idea. I’m going to try another spin and formatting ESP as efi not vfat. If it doesn’t help, I’ll just keep digging :smiley:

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I skipped the luks part and got the same result with bare grub console. but this time I tried to boot kernel and set up root partition manually.

root=UUID=***
linux vmlinuz-***
initrd initramfs-***
boot

At the end I had a message “Failed to switch Root” and the emergency console popped up.

When I tried:
root=(hd1,msdos4)/
linux vmlinuz-***
initrd initramfs-***
boot

I got “Kernel panic” :smiley:
If you need any logs from the root partition, I kept it on the drive for now. However, BOOT and EFI were overwritten during the recovery from a backup

P.S. I also tried to add esp flag to EFI partition during the installation, but it didn’t help.
P.P.S. Checked LXDE spin - the same result

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sudo find /run/media/skafiend/28e1f029-5801-4ac4-9a75-a6b130e25410 -name install.log

and it found nothing. weird.

I guess I’ll leave it as it is until the next weekend

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I didn’t think about it, but I can actually upgrade from f40 to f42. It might be the best course of action in my case

P.S. Surprisingly, I had no issues with the upgrade :partying_face:

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