I solved the problem by booting to runlevel 1 
and  installing the nVidia driver for the card,
a GeForce 8600GTS. 

The nVidia dirvers can be found at:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us:

The instructions can be found at:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/340.65/README/index.html

----- Original Message -----
> I have a similar problem upgrading Fedora 20 to Fedora 21.
> Fedora 20 has no issues with kmod-nvidia. Fedora 21 boot
> crashes at "Started Gnome display manager".
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:32:05 -0500
> > linuxnuts...@videotron.ca wrote:
> > 
> > > I have the same card/chipset in another machine. Everything works
> > > perfectly.
> > 
> > I had fedora 21 alpha installed for testing on my system at work,
> > and
> > using akmod-nvidia with the rawhide rpmfusion repos worked fine
> > back
> > when I installed it, but when I reinstalled to get the official
> > release, akmod-nvidia wouldn't work at all, and kmod-nvidia
> > only provides 2D support on my maxwell card (but 3D was working
> > in the alpha release). Something seems to have busted, or maybe
> > just never made it from rawhide to the f21 release repos.
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