Solved Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop

[Emad R]

@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:

Now I am trying to boot up and it simply goes back to bios.
Obviously something is crashing in the boot cycle. But what?
Kernel 5.3.12-300 is current.

I dont know why you love that Distro at ML ... Ubuntu 19.10 and POP OS looks similar in software updates and more stable

[black3dynamite]

@Emad-R said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:

@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:

Now I am trying to boot up and it simply goes back to bios.
Obviously something is crashing in the boot cycle. But what?
Kernel 5.3.12-300 is current.

I dont know why you love that Distro at ML ... Ubuntu 19.10 and POP OS looks similar in software updates and more stable

That's not helpful for his situation.

[JaredBusch]

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:

@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:

managed to boot into recovery mode and get an IP from a USB ethernet dongle.

I ran through the instructions fine on that link, but then step 5 was a link to another page that stated to run grub2-install /dev/sda

Well that puked on the nowEFI thing. Google told me I needed to dnf install grub2-efi-x64-modules.

Now it dies and says grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory

These look to be more up to date with more details.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/bootloading-with-grub2/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2

well, I totally broke something in grub. Laptop no longer sees any boot partition.

So, clean reinstall time.

Just really annoyed that I couldn't figure this out with everyone's help.

[JaredBusch]

Clean install from the live media. All good after multiple reboots.

dnf upgrade --refresh --exclude kernel*

And hmmmmm

[scottalanmiller]

What the heck.

[black3dynamite]

@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:

Clean install from the live media. All good after multiple reboots.

dnf upgrade --refresh --exclude kernel*

And hmmmmm

Is something wrong with SELinux permissions?

[JaredBusch]

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:

@JaredBusch said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:

Clean install from the live media. All good after multiple reboots.

dnf upgrade --refresh --exclude kernel*

And hmmmmm

Is something wrong with SELinux permissions?

It is a 100% new install. Second time in fact because I installed the first time, ran updates and rebooted before looking. And it wouldn’t reboot. So I did it again.

[warren.stanley]

@JaredBusch efibootmgr is clean?

[JaredBusch]

@warren-stanley said in Fedora 31 stuck in a boot loop:

@JaredBusch efibootmgr is clean?

at this point, yes, because it was a clean install. twice.

[JaredBusch]

doing it again (clean install) and this time excluding grub but updating the kernel

[JaredBusch]

So no idea what the exact fail combo is, but I am fully updated, and working, on a clean install.

• Installed Fedora 31 Cinnamon from USB.
• Rebooted, I have only kernel 5.3.7-301
• Removed dnf dragora GUI sudo dnf remove dnfdragora* -y
• Rebooted.
• Upgraded all but grub2 sudo dnf upgrade --refresh -y --exclude grub2*
• Rebooted, not I now have kernel 5.3.13-300 available and default.
• Upgraded grub2 sudo dnf upgrade --refresh -y, I did receive the above SELinux errors again, they may be normal?
• Rebooted, system working normally.