Hello,
My Mageia 6 was running good and I did my updates which included a kernel update from 4.14.13 to 4.14.25. I think those are the right version numbers. It's Mageia 6 with KDE Plasma using the Nvidia proprietary driver, or trying to. It was working fine before the kernel update.
After rebooting on kernel 4.14.25 it said I needed to reboot again because of a new video driver. After rebooting, it keeps doing the same thing, a boot loop. I tried adding nokmsboot with append in boot options like the errata says to do. I can only get into KDE when I boot with kernel 4.14.13, but now I have a black screen and I still do not have the Nvidia proprietary driver installed. It seems like the proprietary driver is not installing and I do not have Nvidia settings in my menu.
I must be missing something and I have a hard time getting in at all. It seems like it just stops or hangs sometimes and waiting doesn't help. I can't tell what's going on because of the black screen. I don't want to mess it up worse than it is because I think it's something simple that I'm not familiar with. I'm booted on a Mageia 5 installation now on a different drive and can edit files on the other drive from here. The Mageia 6 is a stand alone install with grub and everything on a separate drive. I did find info for installing the driver from the Nvidia website but I'd like to use all Mageia packages and drivers so I have not tried that.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.