[Mageia-dev] boot-nonfree.iso ?

Fri Dec 30 01:25:40 CET 2011

Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> 29.12.2011 22:39, David Walser skrev:
+>> David Walser wrote:
+>>> Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>>>> Now this does not fix the radeon-firmware issue, as this is only to
+>>>> get installer running on all hw. (I probably will remove radeon-firmware
+>>>> again as it's not needed/used by the installer)
+>>>>
+>>>> For the radeon-firmware (and other nonfree firmware) issue, we still
+>>>> need to fix stage2 installer.
+>>>
+>>> Do you have a reference for this issue?
+>>
+>> Is it https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471 or something else?
+>>
+> 
+> Yes, it's exactly that.
+> 
+> the free DVD does not contain anything from nonfree, so radeon fails to 
+> load until the firmware gets installed.
+> 
+> So we are trying to solve this issue cleanly.
+> One thing I'm working on is a separate firmware iso to burn (or put 
+> contents on usb stick) to satisfy this need.
+> 
+> The other option for radeon users is to install using livecds.
+
+I want to make sure I understand you correctly, as I'm planning to upgrade a MDV 2010.2 machine with a Radeon HD 4650 to Mageia 1 tomorrow.
+
+The referenced bug makes it sound like the installer works fine, but since it doesn't have access to the nonfree firmware, the initrds it 
+generates in the bootloader installation part doesn't contain them, so booting the installed system is problematic if you don't do 
+radeon.modeset=0.
+
+Listening to you in this thread I'm getting worried DrakX itself may not work without access to the firmware.  Did I misread you?
+
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