Patrick Welche <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 05:36:37PM +0200, Michael van Elst wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 03:42:10PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: >> > It doesn't seem to help. Another difference is that consdev com0 works >> > for the biosboot, but not for efiboot, which means I can't be sure >> > where nouveau gets stuck. >> >> Maybe EFI doesn't initialize com0. With e.g. >> >> consdev com,0x3f8,9600 >> >> this is done by the bootloader and might work. > >I didn't notice a difference. When I run consdev, the screen clears >and I get a new prompt, but still on the screen. (Tried with and without >the 0x, and tried 2f8) > >I noticed that when pressing the power switch, the computer powered down >immediately, so there is probably more to it than a happy computer with >no screen display.
Does the keyboard work ? And can you choose which boot method is used from the same installation ? If the keyboard works you could use DDB to flush the dmesg to disk before rebooting. >From memory that is how I got nouveau working on one of my systems, it would panic after clearing the screen.
