Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya
<swapnil.bhartiya at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/05/2012 07:46 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> $ /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

Yup, nouveau is still being loaded, probably from your initrd. As long
as this happens the nvidia driver will not be able to load, period.
This may be because you're dual booting that for some reason the
initrd isn't being updated properly?

Richard