Notebook won't reboot after nvidia driver install

[Xen]

MR ZenWiz schreef op 10-10-2017 18:55:
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>> MR ZenWiz schreef op 07-10-2017 21:05:
>> 
>>> 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 took the "easy" way out.
> 
> I tried deleting the nvidia.ko files from the appropriate
> /lib/modules... directories on the hard drive, but it would never boot
> at all.

It was the initramfs, not necessarily the kernel module.

Also if the kernel module gets copied to the initramfs then deleting it 
from your /lib/modules doesn't do a thing...

Regards.

> It's back up and functional.

Well good for that.

Cheers.