Fedora 44 hangs at LUKS input on kernel 7.0.10-201

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After updating Fedora Plasma 44 to kernel:

$ uname -r
7.0.10-201.fc44.x86_64

published around 5/27/2026 Fedora was not able to ask for LUKS in graphical mode. I had to eliminate rhgb and quiet parameters from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX to be able to boot and be able to enter LUKS password in text mode. After this I was able to boot into Fedora Plasma.

at the time of the error I had NVIDIA 5070 gpu and Onboard Intel graphics card (I did not notice this change after BIOS update as I had the onboard gpu off)

Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 28 × Intel® Core™ i7-14700
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: Z790 GAMING X AX
BIOS version: F16a

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I have reports matching your experience.

It seems to be becuase of issue setup up the graphics for the plymouth splash screen.

The work around you are using seems the best answer for the time being.

Once we have the new open source NVK driver production ready this should be fixed. but that will take a while.

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Is this the only GPU or does the system also have an iGPU, maybe amdgpu?
If so, then try adding amdgpu to the list for rd.driver.blacklist= , don’t change modprobe.blacklist=

You could also try adding plymouth.use-simpledrm=1 to the cmdline

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sorry, cannot reproduce. Did you perhaps add the nvidia drivers to the initramfs file?

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I added some more details to the question. I turned off my onboard Intel graphics card and I am still able to boot with my GRUB changes.