The installer crashes when installing to a system with an Nvidia graphics card.
Problem:
When installing to a system with an Nvidia graphics card, the installer crashes.
Effected Distributions:
- Enterprise Linux 6
Details:
By default the installer attempts to initialize the display using the open source Nouveau display driver. Particularly on newer hardware, this driver can crash causing the installation to fail.
Solution:
Disable nouveau kernel mode setting by passing the following option to the kernel during installation:
nouveau.modeset=0
When the system reboots after installation, edit the grub command line to pass the above option for the first boot. If the system will be running in text mode the modeset option can be made permanent by adding it to the kernel command line in /etc/grub.conf
If the system will be running X windows, please follow the installation instructions detailed in this FAQ: