Updating Rawhide today broke my boot / grub

After updating my Fedora Rawhide install today, it finally happened. After 2 years and a month, I can’t boot anymore.

Grub loads, but it lands me in a prompt without a menu. And when I “ls” the disks… i get errors. (See the image)

does anyone have any experience with this or what’s going on… and of course if i can fix this. :downcast_face_with_sweat:

Thank you in advance,

Ari

If it is software issue it can only be related to grub2, but last grub2 update in rawhide was last month. So I suspect it is related to some hardware issue like bad blocks around the EFI or boot partition that breaks the system.

So, grab a liveUSB, boot the system from it, backup your files, find some tool to check what is happening with the disk and filesyste.

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Had the same yesterday, simply install over with the Fedora 43 live .iso - it will keep your /home untouched (the first option as shown below):

I’ve tried chrooting first, but when it came ro fiddle with disk UUIDs it became too rediculous for a manual fix…

Here is my screenshot from yesterday… :slight_smile:

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This Bugzilla ticket appears to be the same issue:

Comment 9 suggests reverting to an older GRUB build from koji. (I assume you do these commands after chroot-ing into the install.)

1) Install koji client:
   sudo dnf install -y koji

2) Download the older Fedora 44 build (example: grub2-2.12-48.fc44):
   mkdir -p ~/koji/grub2-2.12-48 && cd ~/koji/grub2-2.12-48
   koji download-build --arch=x86_64 --arch=noarch grub2-2.12-48.fc44

3) Install/downgrade from the local RPMs:
   sudo dnf downgrade --disablerepo='*' ./*.rpm
   # (or: sudo dnf install --allowerasing --disablerepo='*' ./*.rpm)

Tell me when I can just do it from an fedora rawhide iso

I have the same problem after updating on an Asus ROG laptop with the inability to boot into the system or view existing disks and their contents through GRUB.

And I see a similar problem when trying to run a live image of Fedora-Workstation-Live-Rawhide-20260111.n.0.x86_64

In today’s new live image of the disc Fedora-Workstation-Live-Rawhide-20260112.n.0.x86_64.iso the problem with GRUB has been fixed.
The live image loads without problems.
The system installed from it also boots without the above-described problem with GRUB.

Updating the installed system is not required - there are the most “fresh” packages.

So at the moment, the current version of Rawhide works without problems with GRUB.

Rawhide is expected to break from time to time. Nothing you should use on a daily basis unless you are developer or doing dedicated testing (reporting useful bug reports)..

Why do you guys @ariaan @rbirkner not running Fedora 43, the latest stable?

I personally would prefer a more “rolling” release mode …and of course the bleeding edge, rawhide is almost it - and while using it for years I have rarely issues (not more than with stable, which runs on my wifes and sons laptops)

btw: if you can manage to boot, now a downgrade is available…

The problematic grub2 package was untagged for now:

Hopefully it can get sorted and fixed, it’s being worked on.