On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 05:36:22PM -0400, Bryan Chapman wrote: > Just installed the Oct 3rd snapshot on my desktop. During the boot > process it loses console output and just shows a blank screen. The > screen doesn't go into power saving - just no output. At first I though > the machine froze, but it continued running and I was able to SSH into > the machine. Here is the DMESG. Looks like some issues with DRM. At a > bit of a loss on the next troubleshooting steps, any ideas? >
Exact same issue here... drm effect. boot -c disable radeondrm then install the firmware manually (firmware-update will not see it unfortunately). Then reboot. If your machine has network, jsg would probably be happy to see what's going on in /var/log/messages while the machine loses boot...

