[CentOS] Trouble installing with Nvidia card

Wed Oct 3 23:25:28 UTC 2018
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

> Am 03.10.2018 um 22:29 schrieb Elliott Balsley <elliott at altsystems.com>:
> 
>> 
>> Why?  7.5.1804 has been out since May of this year.  You're going to
>> end up downloading a ton of updates the first time.
>> 
> 
> For a specialized software, we have to wait for the developers to certify
> each new OS.  They are still recommending 7.3.  One reason in particular is
> that 7.5 has a fix for Meltdown and Spectre, which known to reduce
> performance.  This machine will be airgapped, so performance trumps
> security.


Controlling the Performance Impact
https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301



> 
>> I suggest going into the BIOS and disable the internal video port, if
>> that's possible.  You might be able to indicate which video device to
>> use for default with the right video= parameter to the kernel for the
>> bootloader.
>> 
>> This is not possible.  The best I can do is switch VGA priority to
> offboard, that controls which screen shows POST messages.
> Also — this time it shows a few more lines, nouveau says unknown chipset
> (132000a1)
> So I think I can fix it by adding nomodeset to the boot options.
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