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This is exactly the kind of feedback we need! +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I found a couple problems: +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> - dracut inists on loading nouveau driver. With mknitrd, just booting with nokmsboot +</I>>>><i> works. Booting with a dracut generated initrd ignores that. I think it is plymouth +</I>>>><i> that forces it, even if I added 'blacklist nouveau' in a .conf file in modprobe.d: +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> dracut -f: +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I'll include it but if it's blacklisted, it shouldn't ultimately be used +</I>>><i> in the ramfs even if it's included. That said, it's clearly inefficient +</I>>><i> to include it if it is blacklisted so we should try and fix that. Anssi, +</I>>><i> could this be your code to detect the h/w that causes it to bypass any +</I>>><i> blacklist checks (not sure if there are actually any blacklist checks +</I>>><i> when building the initrd... not relaly looked at it much) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> There is no check. +</I> +OK, so that's fine I think, just a slightly bigger initramfs than is +100% needed but such is life. + +I wonder, does the modprobe -R stuff process blacklists... it would be +kinda nice if a side effect of improving the hostonly mode was to not +include blacklisted modules... :D + + +>><i> I think the nokmsboot parameter is not working in dracut because the +</I>>><i> udev rule that interprets it uses the grep command and that is not +</I>>><i> currently included in the ramdisk. I could hack it in easy enough, but +</I>>><i> we should maybe see if a more minimal method of detecting it in the +</I>>><i> commandline is possible. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Ah, my dracut initramfs from last month has it, but maybe it has changed +</I>><i> since then... +</I> +I suspect it's a side effect of: +./modules.d/00bootchart/module-setup.sh: inst /bin/grep + +i.e. if you have bootchart installed, then you get grep and thus other +things work too. + +><i> Feel free to change the udev rule to use a more minimal method :) +</I> +I'll have a look and if I cannot come up with something better, I'll +just give up and force grep to be installed :D + + +Cheers + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010526.html">[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="010587.html">[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#10529">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#10529">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#10529">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#10529">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |