Notebook won't reboot after nvidia driver install

[Liam Proven]

On 7 October 2017 at 21:05, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I goofed up....
>
> My displayport doesn't work riht, and Nvidia has a newer driver than
> the one in the Xubuntu repository (340.104, vs 340.102).
>
> I downloaded the driver from nvidia's web site and installed it.
>
> Now the notebook won't boot at all - I'm running off a flash drive.
>
> It keeps stopping in busybox.  I've tried going back to recover mode
> and previous versions that used to work fine, and it's just plain
> dead.  I really don't want to have to do a fuil reinstlla, but I can
> if that's my only option.
>
> I can try to capture the busybox output if necessary, but a) I need
> this thing back up asap, and b) I have never had particularly good
> luck working with busybox at all, on this and previous notebooks.

Try loading the kernel off a bootable drive, pointing it at the root
directory on the hard disk. If that works, try to uninstall the
driver... but TBH I'm not hopeful.


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