Hello,
I seem to recall from my redhat5/6/7 days that certain installation methods used for kickstarting only invoked text mode install. Now I read that graphical install is default in kickstart on el5/6. However, in my test environment (with older HP DL140G3) I only get text mode install up, even if I specify graphical in kickstart file, with both nfs and http install methods. There's no clues on third console, only an info message about display mode being set to 't'.
Any clues what am I missing?
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Jure Pečar wrote:
Hello,
I seem to recall from my redhat5/6/7 days that certain installation methods used for kickstarting only invoked text mode install. Now I read that graphical install is default in kickstart on el5/6. However, in my test environment (with older HP DL140G3) I only get text mode install up, even if I specify graphical in kickstart file, with both nfs and http install methods. There's no clues on third console, only an info message about display mode being set to 't'.
Any clues what am I missing?
Does it just not like your graphics card?
jh
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:00:39 +0100 (BST) John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Jure Pečar wrote:
Any clues what am I missing?
Does it just not like your graphics card?
No, it works in gfx mode when installing from cd/usb. That MGA G200 is more than capable of running X (have fond memories of even older mga cards).
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Jure Pečar wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:00:39 +0100 (BST) John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Jure Pečar wrote:
Any clues what am I missing?
Does it just not like your graphics card?
No, it works in gfx mode when installing from cd/usb. That MGA G200 is more than capable of running X (have fond memories of even older mga cards).
Low memory? There's a minimum memory requirement that might be higher for network installs. G200s were lovely little graphics cards in their day.
jh
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jure Pečar pegasus@nerv.eu.org wrote:
I seem to recall from my redhat5/6/7 days that certain installation methods used for kickstarting only invoked text mode install. Now I read that graphical install is default in kickstart on el5/6. However, in my test environment (with older HP DL140G3) I only get text mode install up, even if I specify graphical in kickstart file, with both nfs and http install methods. There's no clues on third console, only an info message about display mode being set to 't'.
Any clues what am I missing?
Jure Pečar
This is usually caused by not having enough RAM. I think for el5 you need either 512 or 768MB and for el6 it is more like 1GB (IIRC).
When this happens Anaconda will spit out a message to the effect that it is falling back to text right before starting text mode. Not sure if it gets logged anywhere other than stdout.
--Eric
On 9/24/11, Eric Sisolak haldir.junk@gmail.com wrote:
This is usually caused by not having enough RAM. I think for el5 you need either 512 or 768MB and for el6 it is more like 1GB (IIRC).
Should be 768MB for EL6 based on my recent EL6 VM installation. It just seem rather silly that the installation requires about 3x more memory than the 256MB required for actual operations.
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:50:24 +0800 Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.admin@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/24/11, Eric Sisolak haldir.junk@gmail.com wrote:
This is usually caused by not having enough RAM. I think for el5 you need either 512 or 768MB and for el6 it is more like 1GB (IIRC).
Should be 768MB for EL6 based on my recent EL6 VM installation. It just seem rather silly that the installation requires about 3x more memory than the 256MB required for actual operations.
Yes, I have that checked. My test machine is not a VM and has 2GB of memory, which should be enough.
Any other ideas?
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:54:08 +0200 Jure Pečar pegasus@nerv.eu.org wrote:
Any other ideas?
I figured it out - cobbler sticks "text" by default in pxelinux.cfg kernel options. You have to remove it from /etc/cobbler/settings and then it does what I expected it to do.
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