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vinswale

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Registered: 2013-08-23

Posts: 2

can't boot arch installation media with nvidia 9600GT – nouveau error

Hello!

I recently tried Arch Linux and was very pleased with the performance and distro philosophy. I've managed to install it on my laptop following the beginners guide. Though, today I tried the same thing on my desktop computer and can't even reach the installation command line. This desktop have a nvidia 9600GT graphics card installed.

I leave my process here for better understanding:

1. Boot computer with installation media (I'm using the archlinux-2013.08.01-dual.iso);

2. Select Boot Arch Linux (x86_64) option from the menu;

3. Kernel starts to boot and then it gives me the following right after the Triggering uevents message:

   nouveau E[ PFIFO][0000:02:00.0] DMA_PUSHER - ch 1 [DRM] get 0x000000000 put 0x0000000000 ib_get 0x00000000 ib_put 0x00000001 state 0xa0000000 (err: IB_EMPTY) push 0x00406040

4. the boot process freezes and I have to manually shutdown the computer.

Just to be sure, I tried the same installation media on a different computer and it boots normally.

I'm thinking of swaping the graphics card temporarily just for the initial installation. After that I could install the nvidia drivers and connect this graphic card back on. But sadly I'm one graphics card short.

Can you help me?

Thank you in advance.

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,156

Re: can't boot arch installation media with nvidia 9600GT – nouveau error

Welcome to Arch.

Try editing the kernel command line and adding nomodeset. This should force the OS to fall back to an alternative because nouveau requires modesetting, if I remember correctly.

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vinswale

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Registered: 2013-08-23

Posts: 2

Re: can't boot arch installation media with nvidia 9600GT – nouveau error

Welcome to Arch.

Try editing the kernel command line and adding nomodeset. This should force the OS to fall back to an alternative because nouveau requires modesetting, if I remember correctly.

Wow! That solved it! Thank you.