F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination partitioning

Thu Nov 13 22:17:26 UTC 2014

Sorry for my lack of contribution lately. Here is a quick update.

I originally followed these instructions [1] to install the nVidia
drivers and these are the instructions that gave the results I
originally posted. Here is a post I made [2] providing diagnostic
output to the same thread that the instructions came from.

I followed the instructions that Reynold provided, also with little
success I will soon be wiping my Fedora installation to start from a
clean state and will then be trying Reynolds instructions again.

	I also seem to be having an issue where my hard drives do not mount
during the boot process which results in me being dumped into an
emergency mode console. This is an intermittent failure that may be
somehow related to the graphics driver issue that I am having. Here is
a screenshot [3]of the emergency mode console that I am getting.
Unfortunately I have not managed to get a copy of the log file that it
says it generated (I cant figure out how to mount a USB drive in the
emergency mode console).

	Furthermore, I do not have an Optimus system. So my issues are not
stemming from that.

	Bidski

----- Original Message -----
 From: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases"  
To:"For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" 
Cc: 
Sent:Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:03:20 -0500
Subject:Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination
partitioning

 Note that many Optimus notebooks do work in Optimus mode using the
 NVIDIA driver, without using Bumblebee. From that NVIDIA page you
linked
 to: "*Some* designs incorporating supported GPUs may not be
compatible
 with the NVIDIA Linux driver".

 On 11/13/2014 04:08 PM, Joerg Lechner wrote:
 > Hi,
 > "optimus laptops" with Nvidia grafics, like the Acer Aspire E15,
which
 > I have, are not supported by Nvidia. See the currently final answer
 > of the Nvidia support below:
 > --------------------------------------------------------------
 > In that case, unfortunately the NVIDIA Linux driver won't work for
 > normal display purposes.
 > We document this Optimus limitation under the 'Additional
Information'
 > tab at the driver download page here:
 > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/79413/en-us
 > Some users have had success with the open source bumblebee driver,
but
 > NVIDIA does not support bumblebee.
 > -------------------------------------------------------------
 > Kind Regards
 >
 >
 > -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
 > Von: Reynold 
 > An: test 
 > Verschickt: Di, 11 Nov 2014 6:48 pm
 > Betreff: Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination
 > partitioning
 >
 > How to manually install NVIDIA graphics driver
 >
 > using yum or dnf (I prefer dnf so I will use that)
 >
 > #dnf clean all
 > #dnf update
 > #dnf install gcc kernel-devel dkms
 >
 > download NVIDIA driver from nvidia.com and cd to the download
directory
 > #chmod +x NVIDIA-XXX.run (the NVIDIA driver, for instance 
 > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.13.run)
 >
 > #vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and insert a line with text 
 > "blacklist nouveau" (without quotes)
 > #vi /etc/sysconfig/grub and insert this text 
 > "rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau" (without quotes) and the end
 > of the line beginning with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= making sure the text
is 
 > inside the last quotation mark
 >
 > #grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
 >
 > #dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86x_64 (this is 64bit driver - if
you 
 > have a 32bit operating system it will be 32bit driver)
 >
 > #reboot
 >
 > When you are in grub and the and your operating system kernel is 
 > highlighted as the one you are booting to press the "e" on the
keyboard 
 > to edit the line
 > Then at the end of this line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= still
inside 
 > the ending quotes insert this text "init 3" (without quotes)
 > press F10 to reboot
 >
 > you should then come to a command prompt where you log on as a root
user
 > cd to the download directory where the NVIDIA driver located
 > #./NVIDIA-XXX.run (for instance ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.13.run)
 > The NVIDIA installer will start
 > Accept the license agreement
 > Install 32 bit compatibility (if you are on a 64bit machine)
 > Choose to automatically update nvidia-xconfig-utility
 >
 > reboot and log into graphical mode or from command line using root
init 5
 >
 > Hope this helps
 >
 > Reynold
 >
 > On 11/10/2014 11:49 PM, Bidski wrote:
 > >
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > Can you instruct me in how you installed the nVidia drivers?
 > >
 > >
 > > ----- Original Message -----
 > > From:
 > > "Joerg Lechner" 
 > >
 > > To:
 > > , 
 > > Cc:
 > >
 > > Sent:
 > > Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:18:35 -0500
 > > Subject:
 > > Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination
partitioning
 > >
 > >
 > > Hi,
 > > on my laptop there is a Nvidia Geforce 840M (Acer Aspire E15, E5
 > > 571G). I didn't have any problems with the grafics drivers so
far.
 > > Currently running F21 Final TC1.
 > > Kind Regards
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
 > > Von: Bidski 
 > > An: test 
 > > Verschickt: Mo, 10 Nov 2014 10:05 pm
 > > Betreff: Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination
 > > partitioning
 > >
 > >
 > > Has anyone had success installing the nVidia drivers in F21 yet?
 > > I am meeting some strange issues following the instructions for
 > > installing them in F20. Including this page
 > >
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/9de7q9llhlamf32/IMG_20141110_192627.jpg?dl=0)
 > > displaying while booting after installing the drivers.
 > >
 > > I will generate some better diagnostics tonight.
 > >
 > >
 > > ----- Original Message -----
 > > From:
 > > "Adam Williamson"  > >
 > >
 > > To:
 > > "Bidski" ,
 > > "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases"
 > >  > >
 > > Cc:
 > >
 > > Sent:
 > > Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:38:19 -0800
 > > Subject:
 > > Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination
 > > partitioning
 > >
 > >
 > > On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 18:28 +1100, Bidski wrote:
 > > >
 > > > After shifting the partitions on my HDD up by about 200 MiB
 > > and then
 > > > using gdisk to convert the disk to GPT (did it this way to
 > > try and
 > > > preserve the existing Windows partitions), the Fedora
 > > installer now
 > > > only recognises my HDD as a multipath device.
 > >
 > > > I also looked at the F21 Common Bugs page on the wiki. There
 > > is a
 > > > section there talking about multipath device issue. I
 > > created edited
 > > > the /etc/multipath.conf file to have the contents specified
 > > but the
 > > > installer still treats all devices as multipaths.
 > > >
 > > > Any suggestions here?
 > >
 > > I wrote the CommonBugs note blind - I couldn't test that the
 > > proposed
 > > workaround would actually work as I haven't reproduced the bug.
 > >
 > > However, it shouldn't happen if you use a non-live install
 > > image, so I'd
 > > suggest that. You can use the 'Server' network install image
 > > to install
 > > any package set, not just Server, so try using that.
 > > -- 
 > > Adam Williamson
 > > Fedora QA Community Monkey
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[1]
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1703528&amp;postcount=286
[2]
http://forumsfedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1714382&amp;postcount=310
[3]
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qfmfwqqzqzn2o5f/IMG_20141113_200142.jpg?dl=0

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