Kinoite 43 to 44, updated via discover = no boot

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Hi !

I did the migration from Kinoite 43 to 44 with Discover, and it won’t boot.
It gets stuck at Booting Fedora 44.20260601.0

I let it sit there for 10 minutes and nothing. Spamming CTRL+ALT+F1 to F3 doesn’t do nothing either. I wonder if I missed some breaking changes reacquiring manual intervention before update.

Thanks !

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Is this linked to this ? [Common Issue Talk] Upgrading to Fedora 44 breaks Nvidia driver for older GPUs (GeForce 10xx and older) It mentions seeing an error message. But I don’t see any error message…

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There should never be breaking changes that require manual interventions before and update on the Atomic Desktops. If that ever happens, we’ll announce that very loudly.

Can you share your rpm-ostree status? Are you using the default open source driver from Fedora or do you use the one from RPM Fusion? What’s your GPU?

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Hi !

I’m un-able to provide rpm-ostree status, for fedora 44, because I already rolled-back.
I’m using the proprietary driver from RPM Fusion. I’m using a GTX 1070.

Current rpm-ostree status:
State: idle 
Deployments: 
● fedora:fedora/43/x86_64/kinoite 
                  Version: **43.20260602.0** (2026-06-02T00:41:22Z) 
               BaseCommit: b57430fa56dd355d78e5a2996881a7aebfa21554c4f679f3dc6dcc58caff2458 
             GPGSignature: Valid signature by C6E7F081CF80E13146676E88829B606631645531 
      RemovedBasePackages: noopenh264 2.6.0-2.fc43 
          LayeredPackages: kmod-nvidia mozilla-openh264 openh264 steam xorg-x11-drv-nvidia zig 
                   Pinned: yes 
 
  fedora:fedora/43/x86_64/kinoite 
                  Version: **43.20260531.0** (2026-05-31T00:40:23Z) 
               BaseCommit: 031aecf85c077edf412c70b797d8779aba2e217c87ccc85e58bbe66a77bfcdd1 
             GPGSignature: Valid signature by C6E7F081CF80E13146676E88829B606631645531 
      RemovedBasePackages: noopenh264 2.6.0-2.fc43 
          LayeredPackages: kmod-nvidia mozilla-openh264 openh264 steam xorg-x11-drv-nvidia zig
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You are aware that your graphic card is no longer supported by Nvidia on the 595 drivers and that you’ll need to use the 580xx package instead?

No idea if that’s related to your issue, as I can’t tell what " gets stuck at Booting Fedora 44.20260601." actually looks like for you, but your 1070 is Pascal and Pascal is no longer supported by Nv.

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You probably see the error message only if you disabled the default options for “quiet” and “rhgb” (Red Hat graphical boot).

To get the right drivers on F44, you would want to un-layer akmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia, then layer akmod-nvidia-580xx and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx.

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Ok ! Small update ! I managed to rebase to Fedora 44. For that I had to:
-rpm-ostree cleanup -b
-uninstall the currently installed nvidia drivers
-rebase
-reboot and manually remove the kargs required by the nvidia drivers[1]

Also, now typing this I realize I missed this:

(The legacy drivers are not present in the “RPM Fusion Nonfree NVIDIA driver” repo available in a standard Fedora installation)

So I never had RPM fusion enabled all along. I’ll do the rest of the steps and let you know how it goes…

  1. See Fedora Atomic Docs ↩︎