I had a video card flake out and was wanting to go to 4k anyway, so I bought a new Geforce GTX1060. My Linux partition won't boot now. I get through POST fine, but when the drivers load, black screen. I never get any farther.

My Windows 10 partition boots up and runs fine, evern with full 4k support, but not the Linux one (Fedora 24).

I've also tried booting to a Fedora 25 live on USB flash and DVD, and a Cinnamon Mint 18 live also on usb flash. Same result with all. Posts fine but won't load past the driver init.

With Fedora it will load that little blue, light blue and white bar across the screen all the way, but nothing ever happens after that.

I expect that Linux will catch up and eventually it'll just work, but I can't wait as I use my Linux partition e'rday.

Any help would be most excellent.

Thanks!

Then this graphics card is not yet supported.
The nouveau driver is the problem.

Following on from the previous post, have you installed the proprietary "binary blob" NVIDIA driver?
Have you tried opening one of the consoles by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3, for example?

Tried booting with nomodeset option in kernel line?

Exactly what the other posters said.

Fedora must offer a way to halt grub and go into manual mode? Add --nomodeset at the end of the kernel line.

Like so:

Don't need to touch the rest of that line.

You'd only need to do that once. When the system boots, add a file to /etc/modprobe.d, with the contents: "blacklist nouveau"

The directory names might be slightly different, since I'm not on Fedora. You should be able to find them easily enough.

After you reboot, install the proprietary Nvidia driver from Nvidia. Should be a package for that in the unofficial repositories.

Nouveau driver doesn't seem to support the newest line yet, and since you own that card I am going to guess that you do a bit of gaming, in which case the Nvidia drivers should offer a substantial performance boost anyway.

In an ideal world, Nvidia would do like Intel and just dump their code so open source driver writers can handle all of this headache for us. Alas...

Thanks Fat Elvis et.al.

No, not a gamer. Just a developer who wants to have a lot of real estate. I'm driving a 55" 4k display as my main monitor, with two 24" 1080P monitors on an arm on the side.

I first bought a cheaper card that would drive the 4k monitor, but it was DOA so when I took it back, I spent the extra little bit and bought the GTX 1060. It's overkill for my application, but who doesn't like a little overkill from time to time?

What exactly was the point of the previous post?

Look, boot with nomodeset as in directions provided by Elvis except don't use the hyphens before nomodeset (I don't think that will work):
Once that's done, it should allow you to boot to GUI, albeit with no 3D accel and a reduced resolution. Then you can install the nvidia driver. I'm not a Fedora user/fan, so don't ask me for specifics, but I know RPMFusion and Negativo17 are popular options (google for details). If you do it correctly, you should reboot and everything will "just work" (C).

As for blacklisting nouveau, that should be done automatically when you install nvidia proprietary driver.

Let us know how it works.

Fat Elvis assumed I was a gamer. I was just chatting. Thanks for your suggestion. I will try it and let you know.

And the point of this post, much like the last one, is to show you that I appreciate your time, and am letting you know I am reading your posts.

I'm in the middle of a deadline and don't have time to work on the issue right now, but will try your suggestion after work tomorrow.

Thanks again!

Hehe, I hear you.

Ah, I haven't needed to mess with grub in a while, so I'd defer to seasons about the syntax.

Just one more note: I'd strongly recommend the Fedora specific driver rather than the generic binary from Nvidia. Nvidia's version completely disregards your existing directory structure and can cause some headaches.

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Had the same issue with GTX970m. Adding --> nouveau.modeset=0 to the kernel line got it booted to a desktop with one step down from the monitor's default resolution.

Also edited /etc/default/grub to make that happen upon every boot till I got my education on Bumblebee, and issued command --> sudo update-grub after editing the file.
Changes from original to edited highlighted in the code boxes below, blue is before and red is after editing.