System only boots to read-only

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Fri Oct 18 13:42:08 UTC 2013


Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:03 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
>> Bad, bad. Don't do that. Running the Nvidia package rebuilds the
>> drivers, all of them, against the current running kernel.
>>
>> Every time you install a new kernel, you need to rebuild (like I just
>> did on my own workstation when I got back to work this morning).
>
> I've found the ELRepo packages for the nvidia driver to be quite effective
> if you don't want to deal with the unfortunate NVidia shell driver
> installer:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia

Oh, yeah, they're great... IF the current one supports an old video card.
When they drop support for a card that, say, 3-4 years old, you're back to
the installer.

        mark "been there, done that, haven't seen the t-shirt"




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