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Fedora 40 installer stuck at initramfs generation on dual boot setup (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am trying to install Fedora KDE 40 on my HP laptop alobside windows 11 on a 40 GB partition. for some reason, installation works fine but gts stuck at 'Generating initramfs' i cant see any other issues and USB access is fine. what could be going wrong?

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[–] zelifcam 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No errors around ‘Generating initramfs’ ?

How long did you let it sit there?

40Gb partition

What filesystem? So just a single / partition?

Have you tried it multiple times?

installation works fine

So the installation completes? And you’re trying to boot into the new OS? I don’t understand when you’re seeing this error if the installation completes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i let it sit there for about 25 mins how long should it normally be taking? isnt initramfs a vey basic component this is strange since everything else takes only up to 5mins to install

and by the installation is fine I mean up until that step everything has been working fine. installing software/bootloadet