Comments on: Fun things to do with driver updates https://lizards.opensuse.org/2017/03/16/fun-things-to-do-with-driver-updates-2/ Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Robin https://lizards.opensuse.org/2017/03/16/fun-things-to-do-with-driver-updates-2/#comment-15323 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:18:58 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=12356#comment-15323 A nice alternative for always having the latest kernel in use during installation is to use network boot with PXE in combination with the kexec flag.

With the PXE setting
append initrd=initrd install=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/ kexec=1

The installed first loads the most recent kernel from the remote install medium, executes it and then continues with the installation.

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