[CentOS] kickstart: gfx vs. txt mode

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jure Pečar <pegasus at 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
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