https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101368
--- Comment #1 from Ilia Mirkin imirkin@alum.mit.edu --- Any particular reason you're blaming nouveau?
From the 4.10 log, it appears that i915 is the primary drm driver.
What does "won't boot" mean?
What happens if you specify 'nouveau.modeset=0' (which has the effect of disabling nouveau entirely but leaving i915 as it was)?