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  Replacing nvidia card, with Amd - can no longer boot. Esteban L <esteban@little-beak.com> - 2019-06-30 13:10 +0200
    Re: Replacing nvidia card, with Amd - can no longer boot. Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-30 17:40 +0200
      Re: Replacing nvidia card, with Amd - can no longer boot. Esteban L <esteban@little-beak.com> - 2019-06-30 20:20 +0200
        Re: Replacing nvidia card, with Amd - can no longer boot. Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2019-07-01 14:50 +0200

#210496 — Replacing nvidia card, with Amd - can no longer boot.

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Hello,

Been beating my head against a wall. Had a fully functional and stable setup (9.x, stretch) with nvidia gtx 1060. Needed to swap out video card for an amd radeon rx 580. I knew it would be a problem, and sometimes I hate it when I am right :-(

Now, i can't boot. I hang on a "amdgpuxxxxx" to EFI VGA message.

I don't have onboard video to fall back on. I could put the nvidia card back in, and I assume my machine would boot again.

But, are there any steps on how I can get the amd driver installed, so that my system boots again??
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Esteban L composed on 2019-06-30 12:54 (UTC+0200):

> Been beating my head against a wall. Had a fully functional and stable setup
> (9.x, stretch) with nvidia gtx 1060. Needed to swap out video card for an amd
> radeon rx 580. I knew it would be a problem, and sometimes I hate it when I am
> right :-(

> Now, i can't boot. I hang on a "amdgpuxxxxx" to EFI VGA message.

> I don't have onboard video to fall back on. I could put the nvidia card back
> in, and I assume my machine would boot again.

> But, are there any steps on how I can get the amd driver installed, so that my
> system boots again??

Most NVidia users taint their installation with non-FOSS NVidia video drivers.
These must be removed according to the instructions that accompanied installation,
as they replace at least one library that prevents all competent FOSS DDX from
working automagically, or at all.
-- 
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 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Solved.

Simple, yet simple things are the hardest to solve sometimes.

1. With the nvidia card still installed, need to boot in single user mode. Press e at grub.

2. Add 1 at the end of linux line, after ro

3. Press F10 or ctrl-x, to boot in single user (text) mode.

This is required. You can't have x already loaded, or you will get an error message about nvidia-drm.

4. Navigate to you nvidia installer, something like NVIDIA-x86_64-1895.run

Run it WITH the flag --uninstall

sh NVIDIA-x86_64-1984.run --uninstall

That is the trick!

What I don't know is how to solve this issue had the nvidia card failed :-( i couldn't do much of anything.

On June 30, 2019 5:36:30 PM GMT+02:00, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Esteban L composed on 2019-06-30 12:54 (UTC+0200):
>
>> Been beating my head against a wall. Had a fully functional and
>stable setup
>> (9.x, stretch) with nvidia gtx 1060. Needed to swap out video card
>for an amd
>> radeon rx 580. I knew it would be a problem, and sometimes I hate it
>when I am
>> right :-(
>
>> Now, i can't boot. I hang on a "amdgpuxxxxx" to EFI VGA message.
>
>> I don't have onboard video to fall back on. I could put the nvidia
>card back
>> in, and I assume my machine would boot again.
>
>> But, are there any steps on how I can get the amd driver installed,
>so that my
>> system boots again??
>
>Most NVidia users taint their installation with non-FOSS NVidia video
>drivers.
>These must be removed according to the instructions that accompanied
>installation,
>as they replace at least one library that prevents all competent FOSS
>DDX from
>working automagically, or at all.
>-- 
>Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.
>
> Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
>
>Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/

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On 6/30/19 2:09 PM, Esteban L wrote:
> ...
> What I don't know is how to solve this issue had the nvidia card failed
> :-( i couldn't do much of anything.

Try booting from some live Linux media (CD, USB), with AMD card installed.

chroot to your system and do the same uninstall "trick".

-- 
Sarunas Burdulis
Systems Administrator, Dartmouth Mathematics
math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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