latest kernel boots to a blank screen

Tue Mar 23 22:21:54 UTC 2010

As a general rule, I would reccomend removing 'rhgb' and 'quiet' from your kernel parameters in grub.conf. This will show more info during boot, and possibly aid in diagnostics.

I'm following this thread with interest after giving up on my own battle with the same issue. After adjusting grub.conf as above, I did note that I could boot further if I added 'vga=34A' ('34a' being what was right for me) to the kernel parameters, but I'm  not sure what this signifies. 

I'm able to run this kernel without kmod-nv idia, so I've decided to use nouveau drivers until the next update.

Sorry I can't offer more help...

Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Miles <mmamiga6 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:03:22 
To: Community support for Fedora users<users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: latest kernel boots to a blank screen

On 03/23/2010 01:52 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
>> You must blacklist nouveau in the edit /etc/grub.conf and add the
>> following to the end of the line(s) starting with 'kernel':
>>
>> rdblacklist=nouveau
>>
>>
>>
>> Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so
>> SElinux doesn't prevent the driver to load.
>>
>> setsebool -P allow_execstack on
>>
>>
>> http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-205aab6f190d363e3915c0fa2e0681fc392a
>> aeb6
>>
>>
>> Make sure the kernel extensions are intalled with the Nvidia Driver
>>
>> That's it
>>
>> Michael Miles
>>
>> On 03/23/2010 09:52 AM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi all;
>>>
>>> I've updated to the latest kernel and it boots to a blank screen, nvidia
>>> does not start.
>>>
>>> Here's what I have installed:
>>>
>>> [/root]
>>> root at Issac # rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort
>>> abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.0.8-2.fc12.x86_64
>>> kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64
>>> kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64
>>> kernel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64
>>> kernel-devel-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64
>>> kernel-devel-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64
>>> kernel-devel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64
>>> kernel-firmware-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.noarch
>>> kernel-headers-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64
>>>
>>> [/root]
>>> root at Issac # rpm -qa | grep nvidia | sort
>>> akmod-nvidia-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
>>> kmod-nvidia-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64-190.53-1.fc12.4.x86_64
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
>>> nvidia-settings-1.0-3.4.fc12.x86_64
>>> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-2.fc12.x86_64
>>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.53-4.fc12.x86_64
>>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.53-4.fc12.x86_64
>>>
>>>
>>> f I boot into the 2.6.31.12 kernel all is fine.
>>>
>>> Any help, advice, thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>        
>
> I did the following but still no joy:
>
> changed my /etc/grub.conf file to have the rdblacklist=nouveau :
>
> root at Issac # cat /etc/grub.conf
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
> #          root (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda1
> #          initrd /boot/initrd-[generic-]version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=91673aa6-9636-4490-af4e-3c79a684a2d9 nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
> rdblacklist=nouveau
>          initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64.img
> title Fedora (2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=91673aa6-9636-4490-af4e-3c79a684a2d9 nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
>          initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64.img
> title Fedora (2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=91673aa6-9636-4490-af4e-3c79a684a2d9 nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
>          initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64.img
>
>    >  Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so
>    
>> SElinux doesn't prevent the driver to load.
>>
>> setsebool -P allow_execstack on
>>      
> I have SE-Linux disabled
>
>    
>> Make sure the kernel extensions are intalled with the Nvidia Driver
>>      
> not sure what this means, are you referring to the kmod-nvidia packages? If so
> I do have 'em installed - see my listing above.
>
>
> Am I missing something else? I still boot to a blank screen.
>
> Thanks in advance
>    
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64)
     root (hd0,0)
     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 ro 
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet 
rdblacklist=nouveau
     initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64)
     root (hd0,0)
     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64 ro 
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet 
rdblacklist=nouveau
     initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64)
     root (hd0,0)
     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 ro 
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet 
rdblacklist=nouveau
     initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img

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