Boot hangs after 'initiating ramdisk' when installed

[DeviateDefiant (R.L. MacMurray)]

@rugyada

Would you make a quick test booting from ‘(fast but insecure mode)’ in grub > Advanced options for OpenMandriva to see if anything changes?

Unfortunately hangs at the same place.

@Omv3690

Well this is actually interesting. Did you follow the guide on a clean install? Does this happen on any other distro?

Clean install, haven’t tried other distros in a while.

@Omv3690

Could you try selecting an older kernel with console mode

I only have the single kernel version available in GRUB it seems.

@Omv3690

If it doesn’t work either, try booting with GRUB options systemd.unit=multi-user.target nomodeset to see if it’s nvidia DRM module causing this

Thank you, basic question - how to I edit the GRUB config/options when I can’t boot? The partition is encrypted with LUKS so not sure if I can do it from the live ISO.

@Omv3690

I’d like to follow you through this but unfortunately I’ll be busy till end of week, in the meantime you could join the OM matrix server for help if you already haven’t

Thank you, I’m already there - @WilsonPhillips guided me to it last night. Another member there is reporting somewhat similar issues and puts it on Nouveau still being called after being disabled.

[Omv3690]

@DeviateDefiant

I only have the single kernel version available in GRUB it seems.

The alternative would be using chroot, but I don’t remember the steps at the moment

@DeviateDefiant

Thank you, basic question - how to I edit the GRUB config/options when I can’t boot? The partition is encrypted with LUKS so not sure if I can do it from the live ISO.

Does the GRUB screen appear for you? If so try selecting (not clicking) on the main boot option then clicking E, you should see a line starting with linux, append the options at the end of it

[DeviateDefiant (R.L. MacMurray)]

@Omv3690

Does the GRUB screen appear for you? If so try selecting (not clicking) on the main boot option then clicking E, you should see a line starting with linux, append the options at the end of it

Thank you, I successfully appended the option on the correct line, but still have the same issue.

[stephane]

you need this for dracut parameters

nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm

see this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dracut

[DeviateDefiant (R.L. MacMurray)]

Finally solved! Huge thanks to @Bero via the OM Matrix channel. Also thanks to @WilsonPhillips, @Omv3690 and @stephane for all their help along the way.

• Fresh install, enabled non-free repo, immediate nvidia package install.
• Manually removed all nouveau related modules (not a package):
  sudo su
find /lib/modules -name nouveau |xargs rm -rf ; depmod -a
• Created a new nouveau subconfig at: /etc/dracut.conf.d/nv.conf with content:
  force_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm "
• Regenerated dracut and grub2 config:
  dracut --force --regenerate-all
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
• Rebooted without issue.

When recreating the new config file, I did happen to note the following in /etc/dracut.conf.d/99-nvidia.conf which I feel might have caused the whole issue:

omit_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia-drm nvidia-modeset nvidia-uvm nvidia-peermem "

EDIT: I’ve just reinstalled one last time to swap from ext4 to brtfs, the step of removing nouveau module is not necessary.

[Omv3690]

@DeviateDefiant

Finally solved! Huge thanks to @Bero via the OM Matrix channel. Also thanks to @WilsonPhillips, @Omv3690 and @stephane for all their help along the way.

Congrats mate, enjoy OM