cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/56591833
Hey everyone, I’m running into a weird problem with Fedora Workstation. Basically whenever my computer starts up, GRUB freezes (sometimes with the menu displaying, sometimes without it). It works fine when, while starting up, I go into the select bootloader menu (for me by pressing F9), select Fedora, and then GRUB works great. I don’t have another OS installed, but I think the windows bootloader is still on the device, though Fedora and GRUB are the default bootloader. I do have secure boot on if that changes anything. Any advice on how to fix?
I’m not using grub anymore, but from my time when I did, I remember there’s a “settings” file
/etc/default/grub.Carefully change some timeout-related settings there (for example, add GRUB_TIMEOUT=5). Your change in the settings file becomes effective (on next boot) after you re-generate the grub “config” using the following command: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. Then check if it the problem still persists.Can you please post that file here? It should not contain any sensitive information.
Here’s the contents of the settings file. I haven’t modified it to my knowledge
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=“$(sed ‘s, release .*$,g’ /etc/system-release)”
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=“console”
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core”
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=“true”
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true
I don’t know man. It seems you have an nvidia card. Have you asked on fedora discussion yet? Here’s someone who might have had a similar issue: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/grub-freeze-with-direct-uefi-boot-on-hp-but-works-with-boot-menu/73072