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 with). Booted USB, went through the installer, everything seemed to be good. But upon rebooting (or trying to) I was greeted with a screen telling me that the UEFI partition or loader or something like that couldn’t be found. I should have taken a picture, and I apologize for kind of losing my cool in the moment. Anyways, my laptop (ThinkPad T490, intel, integrated graphics) would shutdown completely right after this message. Actually, there was another message, something about the computer automatically resetting the bios. After double checking the bios settings (making sure that secure boot was indeed off while I was at it), I went through the installation again, only to end up with the exact same result.
Any ideas on what could have caused this?
edit: someone on a different thread, on a different site for a different distro had the same problem: I recognized the error messages immediately. For them it was "Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mMx64.efi - Not Found
Failed to load image ??: Not Found
Failed to start MokManager: Not Found
Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed: Not Fund"
I hope that helps. This is definitely the problem I had today.
After a bit of fiddling around in the little blue MOK box, I came across a fedora key that I accepted and allowed me to boot the system. I wish I could remember the steps, but the fedora key worked.
The real question is why this happened on a machine with secure boot disabled?
I just installed Bluefin on my Lenovo T460s successfully today. I’m not sure exactly what might be wrong, but I hope you did wipe all the partitions before installing. I didn’t pay any particular attention to whether Secure Boot was on, but I followed these instructions anyway: https://docs.projectbluefin.io/introduction#secure-boot
I was greeted with the blue mokutil screen on first bootup as well. I followed the instructions, and the first key accepted universalblue as its password as documented.
I’m just guessing but you might have a broken install on your hands. I made my installation USB stick with Rufus USB and not with Fedora Media Writer.
Same problem. I was on Aurora DX Nvidia Stable then I tried to overlay two packages. Now my GRUB is not working properly. It still boots up a minimal version.
Secure boot is and has been disabled although I tried to mess around with it.
I am having trouble getting GRUB back to normal state and back on Windows! I have been off for months. Ugh
If anyone has a step by step to fix GRUB would appreciate. Otherwise will need to reinstall.
I tried to get Aurora DX Nvidia ISO but had trouble putting to USB. Then I did Fedora Kinoite but dosnt seem to be Live version.Will try normal Fedora Workstation and get GRUB back.
It happened to me as well installing Aurora. I resolved by rebooting to the installation drive, selecting the “troubleshooting” option and then something like “restore Aurora install”, I don’t remember exactly.
I couldn’t get it back and working properly. I tried a bunch of options including following instructions from Copilot, Super Grub, and Rescatux. Of course this is the first time I attempted this and I’m no expert.
Sadly I didn’t backup everything, but the loss of files is small so not worried.
I am starting to think the issue caused the problem. I know it is v41, but Aurora has been shipping some packages like this. I had previously and succesully did a bootloader update. Only after layering the packages this last time which may have grabbed a new Aurora image.
I have no idea what happens if you issue the commands to prompt for MoK enrollment on a system that has secure boot disabled, but what you’ve seen might be the answer.
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Same problem. I was on Aurora DX Nvidia Stable then I tried to overlay two packages. Now my GRUB is not working properly. [/quote]
It doesn’t really sound like the same problem to me.
I suck at using grub, but fixes usually seem to revolve around mounting the EFI partition to eyeball things and possibly reinstalling your bootloader(s). The main gotcha I’m aware of is that, should you require booting from recovery media, you have to make sure that media is booting into UEFI. It’s usually available as an option in whatever you’re using to “burn” the ISO.
I had this same issue and was able to resolve it by booting again from the installation usb. Then once the blue screen pops up you can “enroll”(?) and type in “universalblue” as the password. After doing this I was able to boot my thinkpad successfully.
