Chapter 7. Optional: Customizing boot options

Procedure

1. Insert the driver update CD or DVD into your system’s CD/DVD drive, and browse it by using the system’s file manager tool.
2. Verify that a single file rhdd3 is available. rhdd3 is a signature file that contains the driver description and a directory named rpms, which contains the RPM packages with the actual drivers for various architectures.

Procedure

1. Connect the USB drive to your computer and find out what device it was assigned by the system. To find the assigned device, you can inspect the output of dmesg or lsblk -o +MOUNTPOINT command.

2. Find out if the drive has been mounted and what the mount point is (based on the output of lsblk command). If it’s not mounted, mount it manually:

   1. Optional: Create a mount point directory:

      mkdir /path/to/mountpoint

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   2. Mount the USB device’s partition in the mount point directory. The following example assumes that the device’s partition that will be used for storing the driver update ISO file is /dev/sdb1 and the mount point is /mnt/usbdrive:

      sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdrive

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3. Copy the driver update ISO file on the USB drive.

   The following example assumes that the mount point is /mnt/usbdrive and the ISO file’s location is /home/user/driverdisk.iso:

   sudo cp /home/user/driverdisk.iso /mnt/usbdrive

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4. Unmount the USB device by using the umount command.

   sudo umount /mnt/usbdrive

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Procedure

1. From the boot menu window, press the E key on your keyboard to display the boot command line.
2. Append the inst.dd boot option to the command line beginning with linux or linuxefi and press Ctrl+X to execute the boot process.
3. From the menu, select a local disk partition or a CD, DVD, or USB device. The installation program scans for ISO files, or driver update RPM packages.

4. Optional: Select the driver update ISO file.

   This step is not required if the selected device or partition contains driver update RPM packages rather than an ISO image file, for example, an optical drive containing a driver update CD, DVD or a USB drive that the ISO file has been written on.

5. Select the required drivers.

   1. Use the number keys on your keyboard followed by Enter key to toggle the driver selection.
   2. Press c followed by Enter to install the selected driver. The selected driver is loaded and after pressing c and Enter again to exit the driver disk device selection, the installation process starts.

Procedure

1. From the boot menu window, press the E key on your keyboard to display the boot command line.
2. Append the inst.dd=location boot option to the command line, where location is a path to the driver update. Typically, the image file is located on a web server, for example, http://server.example.com/dd.iso, or on a USB flash drive, for example, /dev/sdb1. It is also possible to specify an RPM package containing the driver update, for example http://server.example.com/dd.rpm.
3. Press Ctrl+X to execute the boot process. The drivers available at the specified location are automatically loaded and the installation process starts.

Procedure

1. From the boot menu, press the E key on your keyboard to display the boot command line.

2. Append the modprobe.blacklist=driver_name boot option to the command line.

   Replace driver_name with the name of the driver or drivers you want to disable, for example:

   modprobe.blacklist=ahci

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   Drivers disabled by using the modprobe.blacklist= boot option remain disabled on the installed system and appear in the /etc/modprobe.d/anaconda-blacklist.conf file.

3. Press Enter to execute the boot process.