latest kernel boots to a blank screen
Kevin Kempter
kevink at consistentstate.com
Wed Mar 24 00:59:34 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.
Thanks for the info. I'll be sure to post a SOLVED message to the list if I
get it working...
>
> 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-205aab6f190d363e3915c0fa2e0681fc3
> >> 92a 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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