On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 07:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: This has been covered on this list before. You need to add "rdblacklist=nouveau" to your kernel command line; that prevents the nouveau driver from being loaded out of the initrd. That's in /etc/default/grub, then run "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" to make it effective. For old grub, edit "/boot/grub/grub.conf" --Greg

On 02/22/2013 03:45 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Its not quite that simple. I did exactly that without destroying my home partition, but the installer kept producing errors about there not being enough free space to do the install. The installer seemed to be incapable of determining that because I selected "format" on the boot and root partitions there would definitely be enough space to install. Also, once I used gparted to reformat the boot and root partitions, the installer still refused to do the install if UEFI was active complaining that it required the boot partition to be 'gpt', but the installer provides no means of setting this. It seems extremely strange that the installer is UEFI sensitive when it installs grub not grub2, plus I was installing from what appeared to be a live dvd, in terms of at boot it provided a choice of booting into a live Fedora 18 or installing Fedora 18, and at boot time the dvd also says that UEFI is not active in its environment, so I am confused as to what the install is trying to do. The only way I could get the install to proceed was to switch to legacy devices only in the bios, instead of having both with UEFI first. Also, is Fedora 18 beta? I have all sorts of problems installing the proprietary nvidia driver from the rpmfusion directories as the install does not remove the nouveau driver from the initrd of any kernels installed from the repositories, but does remove it from the initrd of the kernel installed from the dvd. I have uninstall the repository kernels and then reinstall them so that I can get to the point of starting xorg. The nvidia and nouveau drivers cannot coexist, I had the same problem in fedora 17 as well, but I did not seem to have the problem with Mandriva, but Mandriva provided the driver in their repositories. regards, Steve