[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.

[Olivier Blin]

Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> writes:

>>>> Is it possible to detect missing radeon firmware in initrd in early
>>>> boot, and then switch to loading radeon with modeset=0 ?

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> Does loading of radeon modesetting kernel driver without firmware break
> the boot completely, or does it just make X.org server fail to start?

Here it sorts of breaks the boot.
The display is not usable at all, either in the console or in gdm. The
screen is flickering with purple color/green colors on top, and white in
the bigger part of the screen.

Card:ATI Radeon HD 2000 and later (radeon/fglrx): ATI Technologies
Inc|RV610 video device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO] [DISPLAY_VGA]

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Olivier Blin - blino