Description of problem: I have replaced my old stuff: mobo: chipset X58 socket lga1366 CPU: core i7960 Intel graphic card: nvidia gtx 9800+ by a more recentone: mobo: chipset x99 socket 2011-3 CPU: core i7 6800 Intel graphic card: nvidia gtx 1060 I used an usb key on which I have installed an iso image of mga7.1 with etcher in order to update the system according to the new stuff; the update successfully happened, but the system is unable to boot I try to add a new boot kernel option: nokmsboot, but the result was the same herebelow my graphic driver: [root@magaux alain4]# rpm -qa|grep nvidia nvidia-current-utils-430.64-8.mga7.nonfree x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-430.64-8.mga7.nonfree nvidia-current-doc-html-430.64-8.mga7.nonfree nvidia-cuda-toolkit-10.1.168-1.2.mga7.nonfree dkms-nvidia-current-430.64-8.mga7.nonfree [root@magaux alain4]# which is the latter ones Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
To make sure I understand: you changed the motherboard & retained the same disc. Then used a Mageia 7.1 ISO to update the installed system for the changed hardware? If so, did you notice what if anything was updated? Possibly nothing if you did not enable on-line media. Was that step necessary? The processor/memory should not matter. I think USB etc is detected on boot. The changed video hardware would be the main thing: was there a change of driver from the previous nvidia gtx 9800+ to the new nvidia gtx 1060 ? Did you try booting the new system without any change? In what way does the 'updated' system not boot? To a blank scree, a Grub2 prompt? Do you see the Grub2 boot menu, and it does not boot from that? Are you able to boot to a virtual console - rescue mode, or Ctl/Alt/Fn ?
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #1) > To make sure I understand: you changed the motherboard & retained the same > disc. Then used a Mageia 7.1 ISO to update the installed system for the > changed hardware? yes > If so, did you notice what if anything was updated? I think so, no package were downloaded and installed > Possibly nothing if you did not enable on-line media. yes, I have enabled internet link and all media depos <core, nonfree,tainted><release,updates> > Was that step necessary? The processor/memory should not matter. I think USB > etc is detected on boot. The changed video hardware would be the main thing: > was there a change of driver from the previous nvidia gtx 9800+ to the new > nvidia gtx 1060 ? no change, strangely my gtx 9800+ works very well with nvidia-430-64-8.mga7.nonfree drivers > Did you try booting the new system without any change? yes, but unsuccessfully > In what way does the 'updated' system not boot? To a blank scree, a Grub2 > prompt? Do you see the Grub2 boot menu, and it does not boot from that? > Are you able to boot to a virtual console - rescue mode, or Ctl/Alt/Fn ? at the beginning I see the grub2 menu, and the boot process initiates normally; but a couple of steps after "research of new peripherals", the boot process stalls, and at the left bottom corner of the screen, a dash is endless blinking. the best is that I do a snapshot of the screen just at this moment, when the boot process stalls
If you try rescue mode, do you get to a prompt? If not, i would try a reinstall, keep in all partitions, update media enabled. That is what you tried? Failing that, i would try the same but only keeping /home (and if you have other partitions with user data)
CC: (none) => friSummary: system doesn't boot after replacing old stuff by a more recent one => system doesn't boot after replacing hardware
(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #3) > If you try rescue mode, do you get to a prompt? yes, I attempted two boot methods: - on kernel-5.6.14-server-2 with no option - on kernel-5.6.14-desktop-2 with options faisafe nokmsboot both failed as above describded > If not, i would try a reinstall, keep in all partitions, update media > enabled. possible, but I don't remember the line command which keeps in memory all already installed packages in order to reinstall them at once > That is what you tried? I didn't yet tried > Failing that, i would try the same but only keeping /home (and if you have > other partitions with user data)
I did this once years ago (transplanted a harddrive from one laptop to another with different graphics hardware). The boot got to harddrake2 ("Checking for new hardware") and appeared to stall. I left the machine, not knowing what to do other than reinstall. I happened to check back an hour or two later, and the boot had completed and graphics worked fine. I have no idea what the machine was doing all that time, but I was quite impressed that MGA had figured everything out and reconfigured the system for the new hardware.
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(In reply to Frank Griffin from comment #5) > I did this once years ago (transplanted a harddrive from one laptop to > another with different graphics hardware). The boot got to harddrake2 > ("Checking for new hardware") and appeared to stall. I left the machine, > not knowing what to do other than reinstall. I happened to check back an > hour or two later, and the boot had completed and graphics worked fine. > > I have no idea what the machine was doing all that time, but I was quite > impressed that MGA had figured everything out and reconfigured the system > for the new hardware. thank you very much for this good new; perhaps I am too impatient and hate to wait a long while; I'll follow your experience and report the result on this post
I have checked on the nvidia's site that the driver nvidia-430.64 is suitable for the card gtx-1060
the problem seems to be solved: 1) when upgrading with the usb key iso media, I have forgotten to set the graphic driver to "Geforce 635 serie and later" 2) it is necessary to add the boot option kernel "nokmsboot" and now with the new stuff I boot much more quickly than with the old one
> the problem seems to be solved Godd. Thank you Peter for your efforts.
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED