Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya
<swapnil.bhartiya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the reason
> I could not use it. I installed 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings' from Yumex and
> when rebooted the screen was stuck at
[snip]
>
> and now system is booting well. What is the problem? How can I use nvidia
> drivers without this issue. I am liking Fedora 17 very much and would like
> to continue to use it as my primary OS along with Ubuntu.
>

I'll start by saying that I'm running F17 on large number of (vastly
different) machines, of that, 2 are using nouveau and 4 are using the
nVidia binary drivers.
(I usually use the binary drivers only if I require high-performance OpenGL)

The reason I mention it, is that it's unlikely that I missed a major
(Fedora specific) issue w/ nVidia binary drivers under F17.

With that said, a couple of questions:
0. Please post your hardware configuration.
1. Are you using RPMFusion or are you using different nVidia RPMs repository?
2. Have you followed the nVidia HOW FAQ? (http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia)
3. Have you made sure nouveau is *disabled* in grub?
4. Why are you using akmods-nvidia instead of kmod-nvidia? Any
particular reason for "build" the RPMs locally?
5. akmod-nvidia requires time to finish building the RPMs, have you
tried giving it some time to finish?
6. Try rebooting. When you see the "Loading grub" message, press space
(it'll bring the grub menu), select the top Fedora entry and press
'e'. Locate the line that has "rhgb quiet" and remove the "rhgb quiet"
string. Once done Ctrl-X to reboot. Does it work? If it doesn't, what
do you see?

- Gilboa