Sabayon dont start after last update. [Solved]

[francesco21]

I've this problem with sabayon 10. I've update the system and after the reboot the sytem dont start, i can see only the comand line. Does you have any solution?

[manifesto]

what do the screen says ?
maybe it is asking for root device, then type /dev/sdaX or something like that.

[francesco21]

This method don't work. It's not the first time with this problem, for me, what can i do to start the system by command line?

[francesco21]

I had a similar problem with sabayon 8, because the nvidia 7300 geforce was in the black list. After the 8 version i don't have problem, i ask: can be the same problem?

[manifesto]

If you dont say what is on the screen we cant help.
Please be precise do you have black screen or something written on it waiting for your input ?

[Ryuno-Ki]

It's not the first time with this problem, for me, what can i do to start the system by command line?

I had a similar problem some days ago, too. In case you have a legacy graphic card (mine is NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE) the problem is, that your card isn't supported by the recent driver.

First thing: Sign in on a TTY (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F3) as root and have a look into the dmesg:

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# tail -n 10 /var/log/dmesg

You can add "|pastebunz" if you want to share the output with us (post the link).

My dmesg claimed something about an unsupported graphic card (sorry, I don't remember the exact log). You can search the whole file also:

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# cat /var/log/dmesg | grep -i -A 5 NVIDIA

searches dmesg, ignoring lower-/uppercase and prints the following five lines after a match, too.

You can read about the needed NVIDIA-drivers version in dmesg. In this case, use this instruction while modifying the version to the needed one. If you're unsure, report some output

N.B.

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#`uname -r` --ask

is deprecated. The recommended syntax is

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#$(uname -r) --ask

[francesco21]

I try this method an i will let you know.

[francesco21]

With the first command you wrote, # tail -n 10 /var/log/dmesg , i get the following response:

Your system is not currently configured to dirve a VGA console on the primary VGA devide. The NVIDIA linux graphics driver requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console drivers including, but not limited to, vesafis, may result in corruption and stability problem, and is not supported.

Help me, my PC is stopped from 5 days and i must to use Windows..

[francesco21]

Solved with:

equo install x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.64#'uname -r'

Thank you so much to all who have helped me

[dave_64]

I fixed computers for 3 people over the weekend using the 304.64 driver. All of them had the nvidia 6150 chipsets. I usually run equo deptest before installing the 304 driver, and a few other checks, such as eselect kernel list, and, eselect opengl list.
Thanks for sharing the command you used...it's a bit more "elegant" than my method.