[CentOS] Actually try to install CentOS7

Sat Jun 13 18:01:24 UTC 2015
jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com>


On 06/13/2015 07:51 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:00:52PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
>> But I would still like to get up to 7,
>> but as I indicated in another post, I cannot use the 7's
>> iso because it crashes immediately during boot.
>> Problem with bringing up X.
>> As I also stated in another post, centos 6.4 had no problems
>> with my old graphics card. So, why is centos 7 crapping out?
> There are a couple other options from this page you should try, when
> installing CentOS7:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/chap-anaconda-boot-options.html
>
> inst.xdriver=fbdev
>
> or
>
> inst.usefbx
>
> This will use the Framebuffer driver instead of whatever driver the
> installer is trying to load that then crashes.
>
> You could also use VNC, although apparently that's abhorrent.
>
Thanx! Will try the boot options to see
which one will work.