Nouveau driver does not work during installation of 4.0rc2

[Mike Keehan]

Hi,

Installing 4.0rc2 fails after approx 600-700 packages. I found
that one of the cpus was getting "stuck after 22secs" - the reason
seems to be that the nouveau driver does not work with the version
of the nvidia chips on my laptop (even the git kernel does not work
with it yet).

The same problem occurs when trying to install Fedora 26.

So I need to add "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau" to the kernel command
line when booting the installer. This allows Fedora to install.
But I can't figure out a way to do that in the Qubes installer.
Anyone have an idea?

I tried using the grub command line, but the commands available do
not match up with the grub manual online - I'm presuming this is a
security measure.

Mike.

[Foppe de Haan]

You should be able to press e and edit the kernel parameters while the xen choice menu is up?

[Mike Keehan]

Yes, I thought so too:) But the command is just to run a chainloader,
and adding the option at the end of the line had no effect.

I might try mounting the usb stick in another Linux, copying the file-
system to disk, editing the xen.cfg file (I think that was the name),
and then building a new iso from that. All a bit of a palaver, but
it ought to work.

Thanks for taking time to help.

Mike.