latest kernel boots to a blank screen
Michael Miles
mmamiga6 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 02:17:38 UTC 2010
Here is how I got the latest update in with 190.53 nvidia driver
Install the driver from add remove software not yum
It will find the extention for kernel mod and install kernel
Do not reboot
edit the grub.conf like below and make sure nouveau is blacklisted on
all kernel lines after quiet
lower protection from selinux
setsebool -P allow_execstack on
reboot
without the driver there is no cuda with nvidia gpu
you may have to uninstall kernel if you have made the attempt already then just re install the driver, it will install
new kernel and kernel mods
Michael Miles
mmamiga6
On 03/23/2010 05:59 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
>> 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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