Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya
<swapnil.bhartiya at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is how mine now looks
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet rhgb rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modset=0
> vga=0x317 3"
>

You grub command line looks *very* short (and fishy!). Lack of LVM maybe?
E.g. Mine, on multiple machines looks something like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=xxx KEYTABLE=us quiet
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.lvm.lv=xxx rd.luks=0
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 vga=0x317"

>> $ /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

It looks like you didn't rebuild the grub configuration before rebooting.
($ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg)

NOTE: As I mentioned before, you grub configuration looks *very*
broken, once you rebuild the grub configuration you may find yourself
with a broken Fedora configuration.

>> 7. Please post the output of:
>> $ cat /proc/cmdline
>
> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 root=/dev/sda6

Gaah. Oh man (see above).

On a working machine, you cmdline should be:
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64 root=XXX ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
rd.lvm.lv=XXX KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb
rd.lvm.lv=XXX rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 vga=0x317

- Gilboa