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K Venken wrote:
> I have been trying to install slackware 15.0 on a new Dell computer with
> an i9-13900K CPU and a 1 TB nvme as disk. Everything seems to run fine
> until the point that the system reboots. It hangs with the messages
>
> ELILO v13.6 for EFI/x86_64
> .
> Loading kernel vmlinuz... done
> Loading file initrd.gz...done
>
> After that everything is frozen. Even the power button or numlock does
> not respond.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no other indication.
>
> I have also tried to boot from the installation USB and tried to start
> the installed slackware on the hardisk but it hangs at the same
> location. So it seems that there is something missing from the
> installation. What could have gone wrong?
>
>
>
Finally I see some light - literally.
I went out to get a regular disk, added it, disabled the NVME in the
BIOS (or should I better say UEFI) and redid the slackware 15
installation. Guess what everything exactly the same. Nothing shown
after the two messages. Question: is it not NVME related?
BUT
I now noted that that the disk led was flashing as if it was booting
normally, which puzzled me. So I installed Debian 12.1. Guess what. The
first time ever I saw a single message. It was from nouveau: `unknown
chipset` and then everything hangs. This made me thinking. I had the the
latest Nvidia RTX4090 and there might be a problem with this card and
slackware drivers?
So I went for another option. I booted with the slackware installation
USB. Created a regular user entry and password (with the slackware
installation disk) and after rebooting -still no lights- I tried to
login remotely. Yeahp! All normal! Next I installed nouveau-blacklist
from /extra and the NVidia drivers from SBO (still remotely). After
that, crossed my fingers and rebooted. Who knows.
Still no lights nothing after the two messages. But after logging in
remotely and setting init 4, after a while I saw KDM login screen.
Finally some light. So far, the console stays blank, but once in
graphics, things work normally.
NEXT
I need to redo this on the NVME disk to check if the installation works
as well with this configuration.
Conclusion: Console mode does not come up when using this configuration
- perhaps none of the NVIDIA? RTX? version boards with nouveau driver.
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