On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 16:38 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2013-02-02 14:01 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed: > > > On Feb 2, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > >> No. User has selected basic graphics mode for Anaconda to use.Anaconda > >> could follow up with the extra stanza in the bootloader config file it > >> configures for booting the installed system. > > > OK so you're saying when the user chooses, from the ISOLINUX based menu: > > Troubleshooting > Install Fedora in basic graphics mode, that somehow > > anaconda knows this was selected. As far as I know, the only preservation > > of this selection that anaconda has access to is 'cat /proc/cmdline' to > > reveal 'nomodeset quiet' was chosen. But in such case you want > > grub2-mkconfig to contain another entry (ala Recovery Mode entries). > > > Anaconda doesn't create the grub.cfg, fyi. It directly calls > > grub2-mkconfig to create it. So the feature you need would be anaconda > > getting and parsing /proc/cmdline/ and then feeding an option to > > grub2-mkconfig, possibly via /etc/default/grub. > > Something must be looking at /proc/cmdline already or the installed grub.cfg > wouldn't be including nomodeset in the default stanza. > > > So the feature ultimately > > is both an anaconda and grub2 request. > > Presumably mkconfig is using a default /etc/default/grub (<512 bytes). After > finding nomodeset in /proc/cmdline, Anaconda could specify mkconfig use an > alternate such file or perform some other magic to get the extra stanza > included, maybe an /etc/grub.d/49_nomodeset. This still strikes me as all kinds of unnecessary. What problem are you guys trying to solve here? Do you know of a horde of users that wants to install in basic graphics mode but then use regular driver after install? Cos I haven't met them. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
