On 2013-02-02 16:20 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Something must be looking at /proc/cmdline already or the installed grub.cfg wouldn't be including nomodeset in the default stanza.
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OK forgive me for not paying attention if this has been said, but I'm not understanding if this is a feature request or a behavior complaint. Does the grub.cfg in question contain nomodeset? Or you want it to include nomodeset?
My first response to thread, subsequent to time OP provided access to Xorg.0.log. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2013-February/113591.html
So the feature ultimately is both an anaconda and grub2 request.
Presumably mkconfig is using a default /etc/default/grub (<512 bytes).
There is a minimal /etc/default/grub as part of the grub2 package. But anaconda (or maybe lorax?) is writing more into that file during the installation, specifically the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= line. This modification is made before anaconda calls grub2-mkconfig.
Almost perfect. So if Anaconda sees itself putting nomodeset into GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, nomodeset inclusion should be aborted, and a generic /etc/grub.d/49_nomodeset be enabled that actually contains it. Or some equivalent process that provides a conventional stanza plus at least one nomodeset stanza. Just don't put nomodeset in every stanza unless lspci | grep VGA finds a string that means KMS is incompatible with a required X driver included in the release.
The way I understand GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX dox, the roles are reversed from what's needed. I can imagine several cmdline parameters that should only be in one or the other and not both, one of which is nomodeset.
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.
Requires anaconda be much more capable of creating grub2 grub.cfg entries than it presently is; as it defers to grub2-mkconfig to do this sort of thing.
I thought I was being clear enough. Anaconda must have already known cmdline contained nomodeset or it it wouldn't have caused its inclusion in the installed grub.cfg, however that was implemented within Anaconda.
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