CentOS8 Boot Black Screen After Kernel Selection
by linuxbecauseideology from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5CJQ1)
Okay, so I'm at my wits end here.
On CentOS8, and every time I boot, I get to the kernel selection, pick the kernel as usual, then it gets to those 3 loading dots, and then a black screen. Occasionally, it will flash the readout of what's happening then stay black.
The odd thing is that since I've moved from CentOS7 to CentOS8, 8 has always had this boot bug, and the fix was to just restart a couple times, and it would eventually boot into the GUI.
But since today, I've tried rebooting numerous times (10+), and it won't boot into the GUI as normal. I'm actually on the desktop now but that was after 20+ reboots.
So, I went in and checked with systemctl and then journalctl, there were no issues I could find.
But I'm assuming it's the nvidia driver because I'm using Xorg with 450.80.02
(because apparently nvidia cards work badly with wayland, and I need an nvidia card because I use davinci resolve, which works poorly with AMD apparently.)
and I've had issues with nvidia drivers before, so I'm assuming it's that.
I recently updated Inkscape and exfat-utils but I uninstalled them thinking they may be the issue. They were not the issue.
I also tried this https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?t=74712, which was a script that has something to do with xorg. But that hasn't seemed to work.
As you can imagine, it's frustrating. Please help.
On CentOS8, and every time I boot, I get to the kernel selection, pick the kernel as usual, then it gets to those 3 loading dots, and then a black screen. Occasionally, it will flash the readout of what's happening then stay black.
The odd thing is that since I've moved from CentOS7 to CentOS8, 8 has always had this boot bug, and the fix was to just restart a couple times, and it would eventually boot into the GUI.
But since today, I've tried rebooting numerous times (10+), and it won't boot into the GUI as normal. I'm actually on the desktop now but that was after 20+ reboots.
So, I went in and checked with systemctl and then journalctl, there were no issues I could find.
But I'm assuming it's the nvidia driver because I'm using Xorg with 450.80.02
(because apparently nvidia cards work badly with wayland, and I need an nvidia card because I use davinci resolve, which works poorly with AMD apparently.)
and I've had issues with nvidia drivers before, so I'm assuming it's that.
I recently updated Inkscape and exfat-utils but I uninstalled them thinking they may be the issue. They were not the issue.
I also tried this https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?t=74712, which was a script that has something to do with xorg. But that hasn't seemed to work.
As you can imagine, it's frustrating. Please help.