[elrepo-devel] kmod-nvidia.el6 question

[Phil Perry]

On 10/02/11 16:35, Steve Cleveland wrote:
>
> On 02/09/11 22:50, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 09/02/11 22:30, Steve Cleveland wrote:
>>>
>>
>> <large snip>
>>
>>>             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.
>>
>> <more snips>
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> I confirmed that just adding the entry to the kernel boot line after the
> ks install and rebooting fixed the problem.
>

Thanks for confirming that.

> I then added this line to the post section of the kickstart script
> before I install the nvidia packages:
>
> ln -s `awk '{ if ($2 == "/") print $1; }' /etc/fstab` /dev/root
>
> grubby then ran successfully and made the entry to grub.conf.
>

OK, I'll try to get that note added to the Wiki page for that package.

> That line came from a bugzilla posting referenced in your previously
> posted elrepo bug report:
>
> http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=98
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625216
>
> Thanks for the quick and accurate response.
>

Thank you for the detailed feedback - very much appreciated.