Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

[Swapnil Bhartiya]

On 06/05/2012 07:46 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya
> <swapnil.bhartiya at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Done exactly that. I did not add vga=0x317 as my monitor is 1900x1080
>>
>> I rebuilt the grub configuration as you suggested.
>> Note:  I am multi-booting with Ubuntu so that I do have a system working
>> unless I fix Fedora issue. I did not install Fedora grub instead using
>> Ubuntu grub. So, I also updated Ubuntu's grub.
>>
>> When I did everything as you stated and rebooted. But once again when I
>> booted into Fedora the boot started and then screen was stuck here:
>> [ 13.172058] ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): em1: link becomes ready
>>
>> Swapnil
>>
>
> OK.
> Lets try the following:
> 0. When Fedora boot, bring up the grub menu.
Couldn't find a way to bring grub during Fedora boot. However, upon 
booting again the screen was stuck at the above command and I went to 
TTY2 to edit grub.

> 1. 'E' to edit the Fedora entry.
> 2. After rhgb quiet, add "rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0
> vga=0x317 3". (Notice the '3' in the end)
This is how mine now looks
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet rhgb rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modset=0 
vga=0x317 3"

> 3. Ctrl-X to reboot.
> 4. Fedora will be boot, but will not try to bring up X.
> 5. Login as root.
> 6. Please post the output of:
> $ /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau 785681 1
nxm_wmi  12823 1 nouveau
wmi      18697 2 mxm_wmi, nouveau
video    18980 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 40409 1 nouveau
ttm 79709 1 nouveau
drm 241920 3 ttm, drm_kms_helper, nouveau
i2c_core 38028 4 drm_kms_helper, nouveau, i2c_i801


> 7. Please post the output of:
> $ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 root=/dev/sda6
> 8. If nouveau is loaded (will be shown in the output of line 6), try
> removing it:
> $ /sbin/rmmod nouveau
tried says:
Error:Module mouveau is in use

> 9. Repeat line 6, does nouveau still appear?
> 10. If nouveau is not present, type:
> $ xinit
> 11. If nothing happens, press Ctrl-C, and attach the contents of the
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 12. If everything worked just fine, edit /etc/default/grub, locate the
> "rhgb quiet" and add "rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0
> vga=0x317".
> 13. Rebuild the grub configuration:
> $ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
> - Gilboa