Re: unable to get Fedora login screen.

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> On 10 Apr 2025, at 19:21, home user via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I tried to upgrade from Fedora-40 (patched this morning) to Fedora-41.  I followed the instructions in the Fedora web site ".../upgrading-fedora-offline" document.  After the "dnf system-upgrade reboot" step, the boot process never resulted in a login screen.  I tried several times, including recycling the power switch on the back of the tower.

Sounds like you have a GPU that does not have working drivers, often the case with nvidia.

Did you try typing Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get to a console? Does that work?
If so you can start to diagnose what's wrong.


>   Trying to boot Fedora-40 also does not result in a login screen.  I tried that a few times.

F40 is gone - all that is left is the kernels that you installed for f40.

> 
> This is a stand-alone dual boot workstation, the other OS being windows-7, which I am using now to send out this message.

This is old hardware I assume.
I wonder if you have upgraded to use Wayland desktop but the GPU drivers only support X11?

> 
> My windows-7 install does have the tool "ext2explore".  That allows me to copy files from the Fedora partitions into windows-7, where I can view those files with w7's standard tools.
> 
> New hardware is out of the question until early summer.
> 
> I've never been able to make a live USB and then successfully boot from it; I don't know why.

That makes recovery a lot harder...

It would be worth your effort to be able to boot USB live images so you can recover from this type of situation.

Barry

> 
> I do not have a rescue.
> 
> Help!!!
> 
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