Starting systemd-vconsole-setup.service hangs with Fedora 41 netinst installer

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With Fedora 41 installer image (Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-41-1.4) written to a USB I have the boot process hang at this early stage. I have actually successfully carried out an installation using the very same pendrive onto another PC a month before. I will try to simplify the /mnt/iso1/etc/vconsole.conf file, removing the “FONT=eurlatgr” line, maybe that will help… Please let me know if you have a solution to this. Seems like a pretty old issue.

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Tried different pendrives, same result. Am I unlucky here with my hardware maybe, some perfect storm? Doesn’t make sense…

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I suppose but my other systems are 41 as well so it would not classify as a solution really. I shall do so though. This is worst side of Fedora I’ve seen so far.

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So the results with 42 installer. What the… Proceeds to the next step and hangs there. Beautiful! Honestly, I am dumbstruct.

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((There’s 0 issues with debian netinstaller using the same hardware.)) → nevermind
This is likely be nouveau driver issue. Booting live debian iso displayed a log entry during boot which indicated this and adding “nomodeset” to the linux boot options eliminated the hang. I suppose I must use a more whole Fedora installer, maybe the live one and that will have support for the driver. I updated my BIOS but that didn’t help. My VGA is RTX 4060ti 16G.

I wonder why I don’t get that line indicating nouveau issue using the Fedora installer but I do get with Debian.

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No, live fedora, even 42 requires “nomodeset” kernel parameter set, same with debian 12.