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canolucas

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Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 59

Re: nvidia-390xx AUR package discussion thread

@seth I just tested that.

Added

options nvidia-drm modeset=1

to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

Tryed booting with "initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init"  kernel parameter instead of "nvidia_drm.modeset=1"

Result: all I got is a black screen. Also when i reboot i get the following message:

https://imgur.com/a/pgBb60o

I cannot boot now, so cannot do further testing for the moment, seem something is broken, do you know what happened ?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 65,047

Re: nvidia-390xx AUR package discussion thread

There's a kernel error lost above the left-top corner of your monitor and you cannot mount the root device.
If this isn't because of the blocked simpledrm_platform_driver_init you might have screwed your initramfs and lack some kernel module to access the root partition.
Or, w/ the recent shenanigans, maybe some critical firmware?
Also "lsblk -f" to make sure the UUID is correct.
Any chance to get a better display of the kernel error/warning (the stuff above the end-trace)

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canolucas

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Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 59

Re: nvidia-390xx AUR package discussion thread

Sorry guys, knocked out for the moment. I'm prepping a bootable recovery usb with the arch iso, so i can chroot and mkinitcpio to regenerate the initramfs. Will be back as soon as possible, for the moment being, it seems that removing the "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" kernel hack will break compatibility with our 390xx cards

UPDATE: my system is back online

By the way, what broke my system was:

Added
options nvidia-drm modeset=1
to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

Tryed booting with "initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init"  kernel parameter instead of "nvidia_drm.modeset=1"

Result: all I got is a black screen. Also when i reboot i got the message:
failed to mount UUID=xxxx on real root. You are now being dropped into an emergency shell

This was solved by using usb stick to boot into arch iso and then issued the following commands

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

Threw the following message:

BTRFS error devide sda2 in btrfs_replay_log errno:-5 IO failure (Failed to recover log tree)

So I had to run:

btrfs rescue zero-log /dev/sda2
mount -o rw,usebackuproot,rescue=all /dev/sda2 /mnt

mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
mount --bind /run /mnt/run

mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi

chroot /mnt /bin/bash

mkinitcpio -P

exit
umount -R /mnt
reboot

also removed the file
/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

and reverted to the original kernel parameters, that now look like this:

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=40f88f1c-b02d-4aa0-a584-6774c1d2d3e0 rw loglevel=3 quiet nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 zswap.enabled=0

instead of

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=40f88f1c-b02d-4aa0-a584-6774c1d2d3e0 rw loglevel=3 quiet initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 zswap.enabled=0

I assume my nvidia 390xx card required the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter, but what may have been the real issue that broke the partition ?

probably adding

initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init

disabled part of the framebuffer used during early init.
It looks like system froze or panicked during early boot and that's what broke my sda2 partition

Last edited by canolucas (2025-06-25 10:05:27)