Problem with blacklisting kernel modules with boot parameter

[John Pilkington]

On 02/09/11 21:28, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> On 2011-09-02 22:06, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:43:53 +0200
>> Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
>>
>>> I've read about rd.blacklist boot parameter [2] which should work
>>> starting with Fedora 12 (as I understand it) [3], but in my case it doesn't.
>>
>> I've always seen that spelled rdblacklist (no dot).
>
> Thanks for your reply. I just tried it, but with no effect. What is more
> I tried to blacklist some minor module on an another computer with
> Fedora 14 using rd.blacklist, rdblacklist and blacklist - module was
> loaded all the time.
>
> Could someone confirm that blacklisting at boot level really works for
> him/her?
>
> Regards
> Marcin
>
In F12 the nVidia driver needed rdblacklist=nouveau on the kernel line.

After two stages of preupgrade this no longer appears in my F14 
grub.conf    Not directly relevant but it did work in F12.

John P