[Novalug] Re: Installing Nvidia drivers DID NOT go well (Computer boots to grub)

[Jay Hart]

The problem seems to be that (and this is my best guess) the ^EH#$HE* driver
install for nvidia must also install a new kernel.

Can someone confirm that for me?

Once I booted with a rescue disk and mounted the /boot filesystem, my
(current)menu.lst file contains four lines, none of which point to a kernel.
My original menu.lst file had been renamed to menu.lst.old, dated today.

So I saved a copy of the current menu.lst file, copied the old file as
menu.lst, and can new boot, but none of the (non-failsafe) kernels (and their
are two of them) boot.

Basically, I highly irritated by this. It defies logic.

If I want to get screwed over by a driver install, I'll stick with Windows,
thank you very much.

Jay

> Ok, think my problem is with grub, or the MBR.
>
> From the grub prompt, I issue the following commands:
>
>>find /boot/grub/stage1
> returns: (hd0,0)
>
>>find /boot/grub/stage2
> returns: (hd0,0)
>
>>setup (hd0,0)
> returns the following:
> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
> Checking if "/boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5" exists... yes
> Running "embed /boot/grub/efs2_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
> Running "embed /boot/grub/efs2_stage1_5 (hd0,1,a)"... failed (this is not
> fatal)
> Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /boot/grub/stage2 p
> /boot/grub/menu.lst "... succeeded
>
> Looks like I've got the grub entries fixed, so I reboot and...
>
> I'm back at the grub prompt. Repeated attempts to go through same procedure
> results in repeated cycle of this problem.
>
> Jay
>
>
>> Jay Hart wrote:
>>>> Jay Hart wrote:
>>>>> Opensuse 10.3 beta 2
>>>>>
>>>>> Used the following procedure to install the nvidia drivers:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA
>>>>>
>>>>> Using the "The easy way" install for Opensuse 10.3.
>>>>>
>>>>> First, I installed the drivers for 'new' cards using the '1-click' link,
>>>>> this
>>>>> runs nvidia.ymp.  This went fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I ran the following three commands (as root):
>>>>>
>>>>>> nvidia-xconfig --composite
>>>>>> nvidia-xconfig --render-accel
>>>>>> nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24
>>>>> This went OK as well.
>>>>>
>
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