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ridcully

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Registered: 2009-03-28

Posts: 52

Issues with ArchBoot

Hi,

I'm trying to install ArchLinux on my UEFI machine. As suggested in another thread I've installed it via ArchBoot. Unfortunately I was not able to boot the non-lts kernel on the ArchBoot CD since the kernel hanges at loading the noveau driver.

1. Is there a way to disable the kernel from loading the noveau driver?

I've tried to edit the boot parameters, but there is none which seems to be responsible for that (and I fear it is not possible at all). The lts kernel on the ArchBoot CD boots fine and the installation worked, but unfortunately my network card (onboard Intel NIC 82579v) is not recognized by the kernel. A simple 'modprobe e1000e' loads the module, but no interface is created (ifconfig prints an error).

2. Is there really no driver for the 82579v NIC on the LTS kernel? Any ideas besides downloading a 3.0 kernel and adding the driver manually (if necessary) and compiling the kernel on my own?

Thanks in advance!
Michael

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,140

Re: Issues with ArchBoot

Interesting problem. I spent weeks trying to figure out how to get nouveau to load on a debian install.

Have you tried nomodeset? As I understand it, nouveau requires modesetting so maybe disabling that would force it to fall back to another driver?

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tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,323

Re: Issues with ArchBoot

disablemodules=nouveau should stop loading nouveau driver.