Recover from AMDGPU-PRO install
I have been running Xubuntu 16.04 without any errors on just the generic drivers that come installed by default. I decided I wanted to play some video games so I installed the AMDGPU-PRO drivers by following the directions here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx
cd /tmp
tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273.tar.xz
cd amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273
./amdgpu-pro-install -y
now when I boot my computer, I see my motherboard startup screen and can access the bios, but if I try and boot the SSD my install is on, I just get a black screen it doesn't appear to be outputting a video signal. I've tried 3 monitors all with the same result, I am not too worried about getting AMDGPU-PRO drivers to work, just with getting my system bootable again. So my quesiton is how can I boot into a state that I can uninstall the drivers?
I've tried SSHing into my desktop from my laptop, but my desktop isn't responding to that.
For anyone looking into this currently, I never solved for 16.04, but a Radeon R9 390 with AMDGPU-PRO is working great on Ubuntu 18.04
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asked May 10 '17 at 4:37
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I have been running Xubuntu 16.04 without any errors on just the generic drivers that come installed by default. I decided I wanted to play some video games so I installed the AMDGPU-PRO drivers by following the directions here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx
cd /tmp
tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273.tar.xz
cd amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273
./amdgpu-pro-install -y
now when I boot my computer, I see my motherboard startup screen and can access the bios, but if I try and boot the SSD my install is on, I just get a black screen it doesn't appear to be outputting a video signal. I've tried 3 monitors all with the same result, I am not too worried about getting AMDGPU-PRO drivers to work, just with getting my system bootable again. So my quesiton is how can I boot into a state that I can uninstall the drivers?
I've tried SSHing into my desktop from my laptop, but my desktop isn't responding to that.
For anyone looking into this currently, I never solved for 16.04, but a Radeon R9 390 with AMDGPU-PRO is working great on Ubuntu 18.04
boot drivers amdgpu
asked May 10 '17 at 4:37
kalenpwkalenpw
3012417
add a comment |
I have been running Xubuntu 16.04 without any errors on just the generic drivers that come installed by default. I decided I wanted to play some video games so I installed the AMDGPU-PRO drivers by following the directions here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx
cd /tmp
tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273.tar.xz
cd amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273
./amdgpu-pro-install -y
now when I boot my computer, I see my motherboard startup screen and can access the bios, but if I try and boot the SSD my install is on, I just get a black screen it doesn't appear to be outputting a video signal. I've tried 3 monitors all with the same result, I am not too worried about getting AMDGPU-PRO drivers to work, just with getting my system bootable again. So my quesiton is how can I boot into a state that I can uninstall the drivers?
I've tried SSHing into my desktop from my laptop, but my desktop isn't responding to that.
For anyone looking into this currently, I never solved for 16.04, but a Radeon R9 390 with AMDGPU-PRO is working great on Ubuntu 18.04
boot drivers amdgpu
asked May 10 '17 at 4:37
kalenpwkalenpw
3012417
I have been running Xubuntu 16.04 without any errors on just the generic drivers that come installed by default. I decided I wanted to play some video games so I installed the AMDGPU-PRO drivers by following the directions here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx
cd /tmp
tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273.tar.xz
cd amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273
./amdgpu-pro-install -y
now when I boot my computer, I see my motherboard startup screen and can access the bios, but if I try and boot the SSD my install is on, I just get a black screen it doesn't appear to be outputting a video signal. I've tried 3 monitors all with the same result, I am not too worried about getting AMDGPU-PRO drivers to work, just with getting my system bootable again. So my quesiton is how can I boot into a state that I can uninstall the drivers?
I've tried SSHing into my desktop from my laptop, but my desktop isn't responding to that.
For anyone looking into this currently, I never solved for 16.04, but a Radeon R9 390 with AMDGPU-PRO is working great on Ubuntu 18.04
boot drivers amdgpu
boot drivers amdgpu
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Ran into this question while trying to solve the same problem, I solved it just by uninstalling amd driver.
- Enter ubuntu Recovery mode while booting in.
- Enable networking and mount file system using the recovery options.
- Now "Drop to the root shell prompt".
- Use amdgpu-pro-uninstall command to uninstall.
"exit" and everything should be back to normal.
answered May 15 '17 at 12:13
matrixisrealmatrixisreal
44638
I ended up reinstalling everything so I can't test this, but that definitely looks like what the right course of action would've been except I couldn't boot into grub to access recovery mode
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:09
Indeed the right approach! Got it removed with this method!
– Numan
Oct 1 '17 at 15:40
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I had the same issue it is because of the modification to the initrd file in /boot folder. You can recover by reverting to the old initrd file stored in /boot as initrd.dkms.old. I didn't know how to do that, so I just reinstalled the OS.
Also, the amd install guide said that there is a amdgpu-pro-uninstall script in the extracted folder but there isn't.
Update if you find a way to reverting to the old initrd or another way to fix the problem apart from re-installation.
answered May 12 '17 at 18:12
gamedev90gamedev90
214
Yeah I ended up just reinstalling and am going to avoid amdgpu drivers a bit longer
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:08
This worked for me! Saved me hours of work not having to re-install. Thanks :)
– Brannon
Jul 18 '17 at 5:35
I found theamdgpu-pro-uninstallscript was linked as/usr/bin/amdgpu-uninstallinto/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/as part of the installation procedure. Their docs have not been updated to describe that departure from their instructions.
– dune.rocks
Jun 23 '18 at 22:25
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It seems that the amdgpu-pro-uninstall sh file is missing at least in my case
However in the amdgpu-install.sh file there is an uninstall function called by dryrun
if [[ "${OPTIONS[*]}" =~ "dryrun" ]]; then
echo PACKAGES: ${PACKAGES[*]}
amdgpu_pro_uninstall
return 0
fi
Try /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/amdgpu-install --dryrun
answered Jan 25 at 23:03
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Ran into this question while trying to solve the same problem, I solved it just by uninstalling amd driver.
- Enter ubuntu Recovery mode while booting in.
- Enable networking and mount file system using the recovery options.
- Now "Drop to the root shell prompt".
- Use amdgpu-pro-uninstall command to uninstall.
"exit" and everything should be back to normal.
answered May 15 '17 at 12:13
matrixisrealmatrixisreal
44638
I ended up reinstalling everything so I can't test this, but that definitely looks like what the right course of action would've been except I couldn't boot into grub to access recovery mode
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:09
Indeed the right approach! Got it removed with this method!
– Numan
Oct 1 '17 at 15:40
add a comment |
Ran into this question while trying to solve the same problem, I solved it just by uninstalling amd driver.
- Enter ubuntu Recovery mode while booting in.
- Enable networking and mount file system using the recovery options.
- Now "Drop to the root shell prompt".
- Use amdgpu-pro-uninstall command to uninstall.
"exit" and everything should be back to normal.
answered May 15 '17 at 12:13
matrixisrealmatrixisreal
44638
I ended up reinstalling everything so I can't test this, but that definitely looks like what the right course of action would've been except I couldn't boot into grub to access recovery mode
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:09
Indeed the right approach! Got it removed with this method!
– Numan
Oct 1 '17 at 15:40
add a comment |
Ran into this question while trying to solve the same problem, I solved it just by uninstalling amd driver.
- Enter ubuntu Recovery mode while booting in.
- Enable networking and mount file system using the recovery options.
- Now "Drop to the root shell prompt".
- Use amdgpu-pro-uninstall command to uninstall.
"exit" and everything should be back to normal.
answered May 15 '17 at 12:13
matrixisrealmatrixisreal
44638
Ran into this question while trying to solve the same problem, I solved it just by uninstalling amd driver.
- Enter ubuntu Recovery mode while booting in.
- Enable networking and mount file system using the recovery options.
- Now "Drop to the root shell prompt".
- Use amdgpu-pro-uninstall command to uninstall.
"exit" and everything should be back to normal.
answered May 15 '17 at 12:13
matrixisrealmatrixisreal
44638
answered May 15 '17 at 12:13
matrixisrealmatrixisreal
44638
answered May 15 '17 at 12:13
matrixisrealmatrixisreal
44638
answered May 15 '17 at 12:13
matrixisrealmatrixisreal
44638
44638
I ended up reinstalling everything so I can't test this, but that definitely looks like what the right course of action would've been except I couldn't boot into grub to access recovery mode
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:09
Indeed the right approach! Got it removed with this method!
– Numan
Oct 1 '17 at 15:40
add a comment |
I ended up reinstalling everything so I can't test this, but that definitely looks like what the right course of action would've been except I couldn't boot into grub to access recovery mode
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:09
Indeed the right approach! Got it removed with this method!
– Numan
Oct 1 '17 at 15:40
I ended up reinstalling everything so I can't test this, but that definitely looks like what the right course of action would've been except I couldn't boot into grub to access recovery mode
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:09
I ended up reinstalling everything so I can't test this, but that definitely looks like what the right course of action would've been except I couldn't boot into grub to access recovery mode
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:09
Indeed the right approach! Got it removed with this method!
– Numan
Oct 1 '17 at 15:40
Indeed the right approach! Got it removed with this method!
– Numan
Oct 1 '17 at 15:40
add a comment |
I had the same issue it is because of the modification to the initrd file in /boot folder. You can recover by reverting to the old initrd file stored in /boot as initrd.dkms.old. I didn't know how to do that, so I just reinstalled the OS.
Also, the amd install guide said that there is a amdgpu-pro-uninstall script in the extracted folder but there isn't.
Update if you find a way to reverting to the old initrd or another way to fix the problem apart from re-installation.
answered May 12 '17 at 18:12
gamedev90gamedev90
214
Yeah I ended up just reinstalling and am going to avoid amdgpu drivers a bit longer
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:08
This worked for me! Saved me hours of work not having to re-install. Thanks :)
– Brannon
Jul 18 '17 at 5:35
I found theamdgpu-pro-uninstallscript was linked as/usr/bin/amdgpu-uninstallinto/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/as part of the installation procedure. Their docs have not been updated to describe that departure from their instructions.
– dune.rocks
Jun 23 '18 at 22:25
add a comment |
I had the same issue it is because of the modification to the initrd file in /boot folder. You can recover by reverting to the old initrd file stored in /boot as initrd.dkms.old. I didn't know how to do that, so I just reinstalled the OS.
Also, the amd install guide said that there is a amdgpu-pro-uninstall script in the extracted folder but there isn't.
Update if you find a way to reverting to the old initrd or another way to fix the problem apart from re-installation.
answered May 12 '17 at 18:12
gamedev90gamedev90
214
Yeah I ended up just reinstalling and am going to avoid amdgpu drivers a bit longer
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:08
This worked for me! Saved me hours of work not having to re-install. Thanks :)
– Brannon
Jul 18 '17 at 5:35
I found theamdgpu-pro-uninstallscript was linked as/usr/bin/amdgpu-uninstallinto/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/as part of the installation procedure. Their docs have not been updated to describe that departure from their instructions.
– dune.rocks
Jun 23 '18 at 22:25
add a comment |
I had the same issue it is because of the modification to the initrd file in /boot folder. You can recover by reverting to the old initrd file stored in /boot as initrd.dkms.old. I didn't know how to do that, so I just reinstalled the OS.
Also, the amd install guide said that there is a amdgpu-pro-uninstall script in the extracted folder but there isn't.
Update if you find a way to reverting to the old initrd or another way to fix the problem apart from re-installation.
answered May 12 '17 at 18:12
gamedev90gamedev90
214
I had the same issue it is because of the modification to the initrd file in /boot folder. You can recover by reverting to the old initrd file stored in /boot as initrd.dkms.old. I didn't know how to do that, so I just reinstalled the OS.
Also, the amd install guide said that there is a amdgpu-pro-uninstall script in the extracted folder but there isn't.
Update if you find a way to reverting to the old initrd or another way to fix the problem apart from re-installation.
answered May 12 '17 at 18:12
gamedev90gamedev90
214
answered May 12 '17 at 18:12
gamedev90gamedev90
214
answered May 12 '17 at 18:12
gamedev90gamedev90
214
answered May 12 '17 at 18:12
gamedev90gamedev90
214
214
Yeah I ended up just reinstalling and am going to avoid amdgpu drivers a bit longer
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:08
This worked for me! Saved me hours of work not having to re-install. Thanks :)
– Brannon
Jul 18 '17 at 5:35
I found theamdgpu-pro-uninstallscript was linked as/usr/bin/amdgpu-uninstallinto/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/as part of the installation procedure. Their docs have not been updated to describe that departure from their instructions.
– dune.rocks
Jun 23 '18 at 22:25
add a comment |
Yeah I ended up just reinstalling and am going to avoid amdgpu drivers a bit longer
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:08
This worked for me! Saved me hours of work not having to re-install. Thanks :)
– Brannon
Jul 18 '17 at 5:35
I found theamdgpu-pro-uninstallscript was linked as/usr/bin/amdgpu-uninstallinto/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/as part of the installation procedure. Their docs have not been updated to describe that departure from their instructions.
– dune.rocks
Jun 23 '18 at 22:25
Yeah I ended up just reinstalling and am going to avoid amdgpu drivers a bit longer
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:08
Yeah I ended up just reinstalling and am going to avoid amdgpu drivers a bit longer
– kalenpw
May 15 '17 at 18:08
This worked for me! Saved me hours of work not having to re-install. Thanks :)
– Brannon
Jul 18 '17 at 5:35
This worked for me! Saved me hours of work not having to re-install. Thanks :)
– Brannon
Jul 18 '17 at 5:35
I found the
amdgpu-pro-uninstall script was linked as /usr/bin/amdgpu-uninstall into /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/ as part of the installation procedure. Their docs have not been updated to describe that departure from their instructions.– dune.rocks
Jun 23 '18 at 22:25
I found the
amdgpu-pro-uninstall script was linked as /usr/bin/amdgpu-uninstall into /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/ as part of the installation procedure. Their docs have not been updated to describe that departure from their instructions.– dune.rocks
Jun 23 '18 at 22:25
add a comment |
It seems that the amdgpu-pro-uninstall sh file is missing at least in my case
However in the amdgpu-install.sh file there is an uninstall function called by dryrun
if [[ "${OPTIONS[*]}" =~ "dryrun" ]]; then
echo PACKAGES: ${PACKAGES[*]}
amdgpu_pro_uninstall
return 0
fi
Try /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/amdgpu-install --dryrun
answered Jan 25 at 23:03
J. DoeJ. Doe
1
add a comment |
It seems that the amdgpu-pro-uninstall sh file is missing at least in my case
However in the amdgpu-install.sh file there is an uninstall function called by dryrun
if [[ "${OPTIONS[*]}" =~ "dryrun" ]]; then
echo PACKAGES: ${PACKAGES[*]}
amdgpu_pro_uninstall
return 0
fi
Try /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/amdgpu-install --dryrun
answered Jan 25 at 23:03
J. DoeJ. Doe
1
add a comment |
It seems that the amdgpu-pro-uninstall sh file is missing at least in my case
However in the amdgpu-install.sh file there is an uninstall function called by dryrun
if [[ "${OPTIONS[*]}" =~ "dryrun" ]]; then
echo PACKAGES: ${PACKAGES[*]}
amdgpu_pro_uninstall
return 0
fi
Try /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/amdgpu-install --dryrun
answered Jan 25 at 23:03
J. DoeJ. Doe
1
It seems that the amdgpu-pro-uninstall sh file is missing at least in my case
However in the amdgpu-install.sh file there is an uninstall function called by dryrun
if [[ "${OPTIONS[*]}" =~ "dryrun" ]]; then
echo PACKAGES: ${PACKAGES[*]}
amdgpu_pro_uninstall
return 0
fi
Try /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/amdgpu-install --dryrun
answered Jan 25 at 23:03
J. DoeJ. Doe
1
answered Jan 25 at 23:03
J. DoeJ. Doe
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answered Jan 25 at 23:03
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