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@gmail.com Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:03:22 To: Community support for Fedora usersusers@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@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@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@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