Dear friends,
I am installing a Fedora 30 from the LiveCD (LXDE) and it is going on spinning for the past 30 minutes while saying "Installing software 100%". Is there anything that I can do to troubleshoot here? I am a little lost because the process is normally a fast one.
The laptop in question is the Dell M3800 and I was using a EFI boot setup. In the past, I have installed using Legacy Boot, but should this be an issue?
Many thanks, Ranjan
On 8/21/19 3:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
I am installing a Fedora 30 from the LiveCD (LXDE) and it is going on spinning for the past 30 minutes while saying "Installing software 100%". Is there anything that I can do to troubleshoot here? I am a little lost because the process is normally a fast one.
At the end of the installation process, the post-installation scripts get run which may take a while. You could switch to a console using "ctrl-alt-f2" and check the processes. I think "alt-f6" gets you back.
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:53:07 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 8/21/19 3:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
I am installing a Fedora 30 from the LiveCD (LXDE) and it is going on spinning for the past 30 minutes while saying "Installing software 100%". Is there anything that I can do to troubleshoot here? I am a little lost because the process is normally a fast one.
At the end of the installation process, the post-installation scripts get run which may take a while. You could switch to a console using "ctrl-alt-f2" and check the processes. I think "alt-f6" gets you back.
Is "ctrl-alt-f2" supposed to work here? It does nothing for me (on the LiveCD). I did poweroff and was led to a grub prompt. I presume that this means that grub did not get installed.
Should I try installing onto legacy boot? The laptop is a 2014 Dell M3800.
Thanks, Ranjan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:13:52 -0500 Ranjan Maitra maitra@email.com wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:53:07 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 8/21/19 3:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
I am installing a Fedora 30 from the LiveCD (LXDE) and it is going on spinning for the past 30 minutes while saying "Installing software 100%". Is there anything that I can do to troubleshoot here? I am a little lost because the process is normally a fast one.
At the end of the installation process, the post-installation scripts get run which may take a while. You could switch to a console using "ctrl-alt-f2" and check the processes. I think "alt-f6" gets you back.
Is "ctrl-alt-f2" supposed to work here? It does nothing for me (on the LiveCD). I did poweroff and was led to a grub prompt. I presume that this means that grub did not get installed.
Just to clarify, I got a:
<grub>
prompt.
It appears that the system may have been installed (I do not know enough about this) but the grub has not been installed? Any suggestions on how to get around this?
Many thanks, Ranjan
On 8/21/19 4:13 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:53:07 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 8/21/19 3:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
I am installing a Fedora 30 from the LiveCD (LXDE) and it is going on spinning for the past 30 minutes while saying "Installing software 100%". Is there anything that I can do to troubleshoot here? I am a little lost because the process is normally a fast one.
At the end of the installation process, the post-installation scripts get run which may take a while. You could switch to a console using "ctrl-alt-f2" and check the processes. I think "alt-f6" gets you back.
Is "ctrl-alt-f2" supposed to work here? It does nothing for me (on the LiveCD). I did poweroff and was led to a grub prompt. I presume that this means that grub did not get installed.
Sorry, somehow I didn't clue in that you said you were using the live CD install. I always use the network installer method. You could just use a terminal to check the processes and see what's happening.
Getting a grub prompt means that grub was installed, but it can't find the boot config information. Using the live cd, try mounting the installed root filesystem to see if it's ok. Also, there should be logs on the installed system from anaconda. Check in /var/log/anaconda.
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