Something is really wrong

[Varguolis]

Hi!
Yesterday I've decided to try Fedora. Installed it, set everything up. Today I turn my laptop on and cannot boot into the system. It just bricks with black screen and line, that it is loading Fedora. Tried some googleing and chatGPT-ing and this led me to no results. Well - thought I - maybe I'll just reinstall or try another distro.
And here the fun begins - after I insert usb flash with any distro in it and choose 'try / install' nothing happends. Just screen goes blank or black screen with _ and nothing happens.
Is it a hardware? Or what? I'm kinda clueless now

 

[Brickwizard]

welcome,
did you disable both quick-start/fast boot and secure boot in the UEFI before you started to install?

 

[Varguolis]

Hi!
They both were disabled already

 

[Brickwizard]

ok lets start from scratch can you run any distribution in "Live" test mode from the USB

Tutorial Thread 'Basic checks if Linux fails to install'

Nov 9, 2025

Why Linux fails to load/install direct to HDD, common reasons

1] Corrupt download [check SHA sum]
2] bad burn to installation medium [try again] [if you used Rufus then try Balena Etcher or Ventoy]
2A] if optical drive burn at slow speed [no more than x3]
3] Wind 8.2 and higher quick start/fast boot or secure boot not disabled [after disabling do a full power re-boot not a restart]
3A ] check that boot from USB/Optical drive is enabled in your BIOS?UEFI
4] defective pen-drive/DVD
5] hardware fault,
5A] If old style HDD run integrity check
5B]if SATA SSD check for hidden...

• Brickwizard
• Replies: 2
• Forum: Getting Started

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[f33dm3bits]

Boot into a previous kernel to see if you it continues then?

 

[Varguolis]

ok lets start from scratch can you run any distribution in "Live" test mode from the USB

Tutorial Thread 'Basic checks if Linux fails to install'

Nov 9, 2025

Why Linux fails to load/install direct to HDD, common reasons

1] Corrupt download [check SHA sum]
2] bad burn to installation medium [try again] [if you used Rufus then try Balena Etcher or Ventoy]
2A] if optical drive burn at slow speed [no more than x3]
3] Wind 8.2 and higher quick start/fast boot or secure boot not disabled [after disabling do a full power re-boot not a restart]
3A ] check that boot from USB/Optical drive is enabled in your BIOS?UEFI
4] defective pen-drive/DVD
5] hardware fault,
5A] If old style HDD run integrity check
5B]if SATA SSD check for hidden...

• Brickwizard
• Replies: 2
• Forum: Getting Started

• 

As I've already mentioned, tried different distros and none of them was able to start.
Everyting was good yesterday - installed Fedora same method. Today nor Fedora nor live iso are able to work

 

[Varguolis]

Boot into a previous kernel to see if you it continues then?

Same, tried previous 6.17 option, then the - rescue- option, same result - black bricked screen...

 

[f33dm3bits]

Same, tried previous 6.17 option, then the - rescue- option, same result - black bricked screen...

Try pressing "ctrl+alt+f5", you should get a login screen. Try logging in there? What gpu is your system using?

 

[Varguolis]

Try pressing "ctrl+alt+f5", you should get a login screen. Try logging in there? What gpu is your system using?

Intel Iris
Combination gives no result

 

[APTI]

Hi!
Yesterday I've decided to try Fedora. Installed it, set everything up. Today I turn my laptop on and cannot boot into the system. It just bricks with black screen and line, that it is loading Fedora. Tried some googleing and chatGPT-ing and this led me to no results. Well - thought I - maybe I'll just reinstall or try another distro.
And here the fun begins - after I insert usb flash with any distro in it and choose 'try / install' nothing happends. Just screen goes blank or black screen with _ and nothing happens.
Is it a hardware? Or what? I'm kinda clueless now

First thing.... you keep using the word bricked. I no think it means what you think it means....

seriously. bricked means electronically functional as a real brick. Not that it did not boot but is incapable of it in any situation. If you are working on the device it is not bricked. bricked systems are for landfills only. Yes using the correct terminology is very important. You wouldn't take your car to the mechanic with a bad transmission and tell him the brakes don't work. So now that the lesson is over....

I have to ask the stupid questions. did you actually go through the install on the computer or just boot off the USB stick? installing on the stick is not the same as installing on a computer but the stick is used to install on the computer. So I wonder if you may have been setting up a live usb and not the installed version. You must restart and remove the stick for the installed version to run.

I know this seems dumb but best to start from the beginning and see where you went wrong.

another thing to check out is your hardware. Primarily the hard drive. If it has issues then nothing will work right. Next time you boot fedora on the stick. go to system and then disks. Select your hard drive and hit the 3 dots on the top area and that gives you a menu. You want S.M.A.R.T. tests. look at the options that say error. All of them. if any have numbers above zero then your drive is starting to go. If they do say zero then go to the bottom and hit start self test then choose extended. the middle option. It will take time but it will check the drive. After it is done see what the errors say. Do not use the drive if you have any errors. While it may work it will not be reliable and cause you headaches like this.

Start simple and make sure the physical equipment is ok before you try software solutions.

 

[dos2unix]

Fedora doesn't care about secure boot or fast boot (I have them turned on, on this computer I'm typing this on right now). So that doesn't matter. The message on your screen says it's trying to start fedora from somewhere, when you use a LiveUSB (you mentioned more than one distro) does it always say Fedora?

 

[f33dm3bits]

Intel Iris
Combination gives no result

What happens when you press escape on the screen where's it hanging, does it show any extra boot output then?

 

[Varguolis]

Fedora doesn't care about secure boot or fast boot (I have them turned on, on this computer I'm typing this on right now). So that doesn't matter. The message on your screen says it's trying to start fedora from somewhere, when you use a LiveUSB (you mentioned more than one distro) does it always say Fedora?

'Booting fedora' line occurs only if I switch on laptop, it shows the manufacturer logo, then drops a menu of fedoras versions, rescue or uefi to load, and, if I touch nothing, after 5 seconds it automatically starts loading first option (after what nothing happens). If I mannualy choose first, or any other option, it just shows lower dash and nothing happens.
No, the live usb loads, I can cycle through options, but when I chose something, screen blanks and nothing happens. Same with text installer

 

[Varguolis]

What happens when you press escape on the screen where's it hanging, does it show any extra boot output then?

You mean pressing escape while 'loading fedora' line is visible? Nothing. Just like any other button or combination.

 

[dos2unix]

If this happens from a liveUSB, then it's not a hard drive problem (that doesnt touch your hard drive until you install)

 

[Varguolis]

If this happens from a liveUSB, then it's not a hard drive problem (that doesnt touch your hard drive until you install)

I know, I have an epmty m2 and changed it to test. Same thing - chosing install and blank or blurry screen. Depends on distro interface on live usb. Something here is f'ed up.

 

[tpkusr]

Have you tried this:

If you use an NVIDIA GPU and are experiencing significant visual issues while running Fedora from a live USB, it could be that your GPU is not fully compatible with the FOSS Nouveau driver. One possible workaround for this situation is to do the following 3 steps:

During the live USB boot process, hit e at the GRUB boot menu.

Find the line that begins with linux, and add nouveau.modeset=0 to the end of that line.

Press <ctrl> + x to resume the boot process.

Source:

docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/getting-started/

 

[Varguolis]

Have you tried this:

If you use an NVIDIA GPU and are experiencing significant visual issues while running Fedora from a live USB, it could be that your GPU is not fully compatible with the FOSS Nouveau driver. One possible workaround for this situation is to do the following 3 steps:

During the live USB boot process, hit e at the GRUB boot menu.

Find the line that begins with linux, and add nouveau.modeset=0 to the end of that line.

Press <ctrl> + x to resume the boot process.

Source:

[f44] Getting Started

Learn more about Fedora Linux, the Fedora Project & the Fedora Community.

docs.fedoraproject.org

Intel Iris

 

[APTI]

Intel Iris

it sounds like you got it to install but just will not boot.

I do not think the intel iris GPU will be an issue. most intel is supported out of box.

You said it was running but stopped?

when you see that option as to what to boot. hit "E" key... then go to the linux line (longest one) and add the word "single" without the quotes to the end of the line. it will start you in single user mode. Once in there at the terminal type in...

sudo dnf update -y

make sure you are plugged into internet. this will update everything and hopefully fix it.

 

[Condobloke]

G'day Varguolis, Welcome to Linux.org

Looks like the gremlins are working overtime this new year.

I had a recent experience, where I tried out a cd, from an old ninja turtles movie. it would not load/work, so I promptly forgot about it and moved on to other things. Later that evening, I needed to reboot after a kernel update. My pc would not move past the motherboard (asrock) screen. I tried everything under the sun....and then some. No dice.

I'll cut the story short.... I eventually took the cd out of the tray, and all is well. I have even stopped swearing.

Do you have a usb stick (or a cd/dvd) inserted somewhere that you have forgotten about?...Could we be that lucky ??!!

Even if this doesn't work/produce a result...Welcome. Hang in there.