I did not, and my best attempt looking at others, they did not as well.
I still can’t tell if it is my screw up as I originally did a sudo bootupctl update and everything was fine after rebooting. A few days later I then overlayed packages. A little bit after this I noticed the below issue from Travier. (Thus I don’t feel comfortable filing an issue for Universal Blue from my perspective.)
opened 12:25AM - 10 Sep 24 UTC
closed 09:52AM - 23 Sep 24 UTC
bug
rawhide
kinoite
f41
**Describe the bug**
GRUB boots into grub command line after reboot from upda… te.
**To Reproduce**
1. Install F40 Silverblue
2. Rebase to F41
3. Run `sudo semanage permissive -a bootupd_t` to workaround selinux policy issue
4. Run `sudo bootupctl update`
5. Run `rpm-ostree update` or overlay any package
6. Reboot
**Expected behavior**
System should boot as usual.
**OS version:**
```
State: idle
BootedDeployment:
● fedora:fedora/41/x86_64/silverblue
Version: 41.20240908.n.0 (2024-09-08T08:02:28Z)
BaseCommit: 4a563b07cb9484d775cf691bdbd57709a5f82ba41ddebb44ab6b9e7de5da5fe8
GPGSignature: Valid signature by 466CF2D8B60BC3057AA9453ED0622462E99D6AD1
RemovedBasePackages: noopenh264 0.1.0~openh264_2.4.1-2.fc41
LayeredPackages: btrbk fish mozilla-openh264 syncthing
```
**Additional context**
I was testing bootupd https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraSilverblueBootupd#How_To_Test
```
> sudo bootupctl status
Running as unit: bootupd.service
Component EFI
Installed: grub2-efi-ia32-1:2.12-4.fc41.x86_64,grub2-efi-x64-1:2.12-4.fc41.x86_64,shim-ia32-15.8-3.x86_64,shim-x64-15.8-3.x86_64
Update: At latest version
No components are adoptable.
Boot method: EFI
> sudo bootupctl validate
Running as unit: bootupd.service
Validated: EFI
```
Apparently it did look like Bluefin and Aurora had trouble, although maybe they updated their bootloader as well.
I ended up scouring my closet for usb sticks, found one with an old linux mint live on it, and was able to get back to my previous from that point many hours later. Thank goodness I regularily backup my home folder to an external drive and know enough rsync to get by.
So what happened? I downloaded the Bluefin-stable iso, the same one I’d been testing in a virtual machine over the last few days. Wrote it to USB using Fedora Media Writer as suggested (a procedure I’m not even slightly unfamiliar…