[elrepo-devel] kmod-nvidia.el6 question

[Phil Perry]

On 09/02/11 22:30, Steve Cleveland wrote:
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>           kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_rhel6-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_rhel6/lv_root
> rd_LVM_LV=vg_rhel6/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto
> rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
>           initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64.img
>
>
> As referenced in the bug posting, the issue appears to be with grubby
> not working correctly during kickstart.  That's unfortunate.
>

Indeed, and thanks for confirming that. We use grubby in %post (in 
nvidia-x11-drv) to add 'nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau' to the 
kernel boot line to prevent the nouveau driver from loading.

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>
> I will do another install and try just editing the grub.conf and
> rebooting again.  If that takes care of things, I can figure out a way
> to work around that.
>
> Thanks,
>    - Steve

That would give us our confirmation for sure. I must admit I'd rather 
look at a hack to work around the problem in KS than hacking the %post 
section of the package.

Thanks for the detailed feedback - much appreciated.

Phil