Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:53:32 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> :
bent fender composed on 2024-08-28 06:13 (UTC-0400):
Somewhere along the line I got ticked off and scrounged up an older AMD card, the last time I ran TW (and Artix without systemd) was with that AMD card. Then the AMD card packed up so I reinstalled the old nvidia gt640 interim. Since then neither TW nor Artix boot, both get only as far as a last HDMI icon on the monitor.
The above is not true, my bad: they boot but the monitor goes black after the HDMI icon appears on it. I suppose that's where a GUI log-in would begin being shown.
I've tried so many things with the TW partition that it's prbably totally borked by now, though I could recover it from stored backups to the dates shown.
My Slackware, Devuan, and VoidLinux installs which never used nvidia drivers at all (if that's what the problem is) all boot without issues. I thought my best shot would come from booting a TW DVD and doing an upgrade but the DVD's don't boot either so even a chroot has to be done from Slackware, a last Mohican that still lets you log in at cLi level. THIS is what I don't understand, why would an installer want to use any proprietary driver at all when an alternative avails (if that's what the problem is)?
So what I think I should try is recover the TW partition, then chroot from Slackware and TRY to edit what needs editing so that nouveau gets used on the next boot, which is a few fathoms over my head. I did chroot and try to install the last nvidia 'run' driver file but I don't think it helped any
Perhaps you can avoid your trouble booting installation media by not using it. Instead, download linux and initrd for NET installation from http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/loader/ and put them in a Grub stanza. This is how I start most installations, main exception being when no disk in system contains a working Grub already. Once stanza is constructed and placed, starting installer is a snap. Initial configurations can be included on the stanza's linu line, such as for network. https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Linuxrc has these instructions.
All that is over my head for now
Have you tried appending plymouth.enable=0 to your installed system's or installation media's boot menu linu line, and dropping quiet and splash=silent from them?
This didn't change anything: break into grub shell with 'c' set root=(hd0,14) linux /boot/vmlinuz plymouth.enable=0 root=/dev/sda14 initrd /boot/initrd boot
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Felix Miata
My problem when trying to boot my installed TW is maybe not with the nvidia driver as much as with its absence; the last card configured having been AMD but now booting with an nvidia card. All this liturgy about removing a driver and installing the correct one before rebooting after a card-change is dead in the water when a card just packs up and the only option becomes to go with another one (no one that I know of keeps two identical cards around!) For the Instalation or Live dvd's it's another story, the problem there would seem to be kernel 6.10 and nvidia drivers but even then (and I'm way overextending my familiarity here) with bothering with any proprietary driver instead of nouveau.