Re: How to create updated (PXE) initrd for os 12.2 installation CD?

Per Jessen <[email protected]>
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Joschi Brauchle wrote:

> On 12/05/2012 03:31 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
>> Joschi Brauchle wrote:
>>
>>> As the stock kernel of openSUSE 12.2 seems to have a problem with
>>> some AMD FirePro cards (crash on switch from VT7 to any other, crash
>>> when KEXECing to installed system), I would like to use the latest
>>> kernel from openSUSE12.2:update repository and (re)build the initrd.
>>>
>>> Could anyone give me a hint on how I would recreate the initrd that
>>> is used to boot the installation CD (i.e. in the OSS repository
>>> under /boot) with the latest kernel?
>>
>> Could you perhaps solve this by adding the usual "nomodeset" at
>> startup?
> 
> Yes, that does solve the problem and prevent the crash.
> 
> Unfortunately, AY seems to include the kernel options set at
> installation time in /boot/grub/menu.lst of the installed system.
> 
> I would thus need to remove "nomodeset" again from the installed
> system.
> 
> Or is there a way to prevent this behavior?

There has to be a way, but I'm not an auto-install guru. Hopefully
someone else will have an answer for you. 


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