Just in case my addition of i915 to initramfs was causing a problem with drm-intel-next, I removed i915 from initramfs and repeated the test. The result was the same, no video after a certain point in the boot process with nomodeset using the drm-intel-next kernel as in #8.
Just in case my addition of i915 to initramfs was causing a problem with drm-intel-next, I removed i915 from initramfs and repeated the test. The result was the same, no video after a certain point in the boot process with nomodeset using the drm-intel-next kernel as in #8.