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Re: deb install report



James J. Ramsey wrote:
> It may be old, but I think that even the recent builds
> seem to have a bug that affected B?r?ny. The installer
> seems to filter out some of the parameters that are
> passed at the boot prompt, even though they are
> standard-issue, documented kernel parameters. In
> B?r?ny's case, the ignored parameter was vga=normal.
> In my case, it was ide=nodma. IMHO, filtering
> parameters like this is a good path to frustration.

I suspect that the problem is that kernel boot parameters are not passed
to modules when they are loaded. 

However, in the particular case of frame buffer, there is now a
documented, working way to not turn it on.

-- 
see shy jo

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