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carebearboy

Member

Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 56

Installed Nvidia drivers and boots into prompt [Solved]

This is a solution to a problam that someone could have when installing Nvidia drivers:

Situation:

- Installed Nvidia drivers
- Removed Nvidia drivers / Installed Nouveau drivers
- Removed Nouveau drivers / Reinstalled Nvidia drivers

Result = boot into terminal

I followed these instructions on Arch Wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau

The solution (run as root):

# mkinitcpio -p kernel26

It's in the Arch Wiki Nouveau guide, but not the Nvidia guide. This has saved me a HUGE headache. I hope it can be of use.

Last edited by carebearboy (2011-07-05 01:45:47)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Installed Nvidia drivers and boots into prompt [Solved]

The script does rebuild the kernel image.