# My install of Bluefin dx stable won’t boot

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**Category:** Bluefin\
**Created:** [December 16, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/my-install-of-bluefin-dx-stable-won-t-boot/5739 "2024-12-16T20:19:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnAtl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/johnatl/32/3485_2.png) [@JohnAtl](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/JohnAtl)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/my-install-of-bluefin-dx-stable-won-t-boot/5739/1 "2024-12-16T20:19:20Z")

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Edit: changed the title, didn’t mean to imply all Bluefin wouldn’t boot and incite panic.

Updated my system this morning and everything was fine. Worked for a while, then had a weird thing with a directory that didn’t show in a file listing, but seemed to allow me to rm it multiple times. Decided to reboot as a first course of action.  
System will not boot. Neither the most recent system, nor the backup system.  
It says I am in emergency mode, etc. but I can’t log in since the root account is locked.

How should I proceed?

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**Author:** ![tulilirockz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/tulilirockz/32/6812_2.png) [@tulilirockz](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/tulilirockz)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/my-install-of-bluefin-dx-stable-won-t-boot/5739/2 "2024-12-16T20:23:50Z")

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Hello John! I don’t exactly know how to help you out, but I suggest you to join our discord server so that we can talk about this synchronously and debug it properly. being here I feel is not going to be a great experience for debugging your problem. [Universal Blue](https://discord.com/invite/WEu6BdFEtp)

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**Author:** ![tulilirockz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/tulilirockz/32/6812_2.png) [@tulilirockz](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/tulilirockz)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/my-install-of-bluefin-dx-stable-won-t-boot/5739/3 "2024-12-16T20:25:27Z")

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But first thing I would suggest you is to get a Fedora Workstation USB drive from another computer just so that we can get your data safely to make sure you dont lose anything

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**Author:** ![JohnAtl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/johnatl/32/3485_2.png) [@JohnAtl](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/JohnAtl)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/my-install-of-bluefin-dx-stable-won-t-boot/5739/4 "2024-12-17T11:32:57Z")

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Posted on Discord, thanks for the reminder.

I generally avoid Discord because it is like being in a room with 20 people talking about 8 different things all at once.

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**Author:** ![JohnAtl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/johnatl/32/3485_2.png) [@JohnAtl](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/JohnAtl)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/my-install-of-bluefin-dx-stable-won-t-boot/5739/5 "2024-12-17T14:36:47Z")

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I reinstalled and restored.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/e/e39f7d1952979cf23b0f8d634e025fb38da50026.png) [@system](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/my-install-of-bluefin-dx-stable-won-t-boot/5739/6 "2024-12-18T14:36:58Z")

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