Why hello there fellow tuxers. I hope I am not posting this in the wrong spot, I am still a little new to this type of social media.

I have installed fedora today on my pc. However, after a successful install and a single successful boot, the pc just stopped booting both the pen (with ventoy) and fedora.

  • Both the pen and fedora print the same error.

  • Windows still works normally.

  • My EFI partition is 512mb long and still has half its space left.

  • I can’t chroot into fedora and reinstall grub, because the pen stopped working.

  • I don’t have Secure Boot enabled.

  • biscuits@lemmy.sdfeu.org
    5·
    1 year ago

    Were you booting to Windows between first successful boot and one with this error? Are you sure you have secure boot disabled?

    • gurapoku@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      To answer the first question, likely not. The answer to the second question is I am pretty sure. In my bios, I have secure boot control as disabled and secure boot grayed out on the “Not Active” setting

    • gurapoku@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Sorry for the late answer, I am not receiving notifications for some reason.

      The root partition is 507GB long and it shouldn’t be anywhere close to full since I’d just installed fedora. And even if it were abnormally small/full, the pen should still have worked, so the issue has likely nothing to do with something like a partition.

      Honestly, the fact that the pen stopped booting too, but only in my pc (it works in other pcs) makes this by far the strangest issue I have seen to date, so it could have had an equally strange cause. Is there any specific reason why you asked this question :)? I’d be happy to dig further.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
    3·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like the NVRAM on your motherboard is full. Try deleting old boot entries from the boot list (using efibootmgr or a GUI for that), or maybe even reset the motherboard to factory defaults.

    You should be able to boot your OS if you disable secure boot. After that you can try to fix the problem and turn secure boot back on, or leave it off if you don’t care for it.

    • gurapo@lemmy.kya.moeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have resetted the motherboard to factory defaults without success. However, the other tips sound great!

      Right now I need the pc, but once I get home I’ll try to find a tool to delete the entries through windows, and if that isn’t possible I’ll just try to do it manually. If it does fix my pc, I should be able to easily regenerate them by chrooting.

      Since I think factory resetting the motherboard entails opening the laptop up, which is not something I can do without some time, I should only do it in a few days.

      Thanks for the tips!

    • gurapoku@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Nope. It is 512MB long and still has half its space left. And even if that were the case, the pen where I burned the fedora live iso would still boot :(