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| author | Anssi Hannula <anssi@mageia.org> | 2011-04-20 23:33:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Anssi Hannula <anssi@mageia.org> | 2011-04-20 23:33:06 +0000 |
| commit | 6bd71a7b5cf689106db7364c7bbb37796eabcdc1 (patch) | |
| tree | c713f2bf89b6dc1cca3e9d60089731c84a71fac6 /perl-install | |
| parent | dfa344d88dcb9510cc9a65e9ef02921557d00726 (diff) | |
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service_harddrake: show a dialog about having to use nokmsboot if we couldn't
automatically reconfigure the boot loader (e.g. when booted directly from a
foreign bootloader) (Mageia bug #893)
Diffstat (limited to 'perl-install')
| -rw-r--r-- | perl-install/NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | perl-install/standalone/service_harddrake | 10 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/NEWS b/perl-install/NEWS index 29efcc48f..332d7978b 100644 --- a/perl-install/NEWS +++ b/perl-install/NEWS @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ a hardware change instead of an ldetect-lst change o show yes/no buttons instead of ok/cancel when asking about running a config tool + o show a dialog about having to use nokmsboot if we couldn't automatically + reconfigure the boot loader (e.g. when booted directly from a foreign + bootloader) (Mageia bug #893) Version 13.48 - 17 April 2011 diff --git a/perl-install/standalone/service_harddrake b/perl-install/standalone/service_harddrake index 48758fc17..316088431 100755 --- a/perl-install/standalone/service_harddrake +++ b/perl-install/standalone/service_harddrake @@ -422,7 +422,15 @@ if (!$reboot_needed && text2bool($cfg{HANDLE_KMS_BOOT_CONFIG})) { if (-x "/sbin/display_driver_helper" && system("display_driver_helper", "--check-loaded") != 0) { # incorrect driver is loaded, X.org can't start (e.g. proprietary driver loaded while free driver in use, # or free driver loaded while vesa is configured). - $reboot_needed |= Xconfig::various::setup_kms(); + my $kms_changed = Xconfig::various::setup_kms(); + $reboot_needed |= $kms_changed; + if (!$reboot_needed && cat_("/proc/cmdline") !~ /\bnokmsboot\b/) { + # Wrong driver loaded but fixing the bootloader configuration failed. + # Possibly a direct boot from another bootloader. + dialog_with_timeout("warn", N("Display driver issue"), + N("The display driver currently configured requires you to use the 'nokmsboot' boot option to prevent the KMS driver of the kernel from being loaded in the boot process. Startup of the X server may now fail as that option was not specified."), + 60, $plymouth); + } } elsif (-e "/dev/.late_kms") { # initrd didn't load the KMS driver; non-fatal but ugly, fix it for next boot unlink("/dev/.late_kms"); |