Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 15:48, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> >> I've got an old server, that I'm *trying* to rebuild from C6. Our >> regular key, with the kickstarts, etc, simply won't boot. Just a blank >> screen, and it never goes anywhere. >> >> So I'm trying to build it from a year-old regular installer. >> >> 100% of the time, the graphical screen is screwed. Resolution's so big >> that I cannot see the right-hand 10% or 15% of the screen. There doesn't >> seem to be any way that I've found yet to make it higher res, so I can >> read it. >> >> It's *not* the monitor's fault. It is an ancient Matrox video card... >> but I would have thought the VESA driver could handle it. > > Easiest would be put $20.00 into an old video card to replace the > Matrox. Matrox support seems to have degraded in X11 after 2010 or so. To me, this is a non-sequitur. I'm at work, and was fighting for far too long yesterday - hours - to get this system built and up. I got it up - that *also* required another USB key with an archived kmod-forcedeth rpm, but it wasn't ready to do backups LAST NIGHT. I've gotten it to that point this morning. To say "spend $20..." does not relate to "have to find a workaround to do it *today*", nor to "this is a work system, I'm not driving out to Microcenter to buy one". > > The next solution would be to try the text mode and stick to that. Oh, right, I tried that. Text mode does NOT allow you to encrypt your drive. Missing option. When I did the second? rebuild, I chose a basic server, after, when I tried to install kmod-forcedeth, and realized it needed kernel-devel and kernel-headers... and when I tried to install them, it told me there was no perl. Trying to think of what "minimal system" would be used for - a hacked Roomba (tm)? > The third is to find kernel vesa modes on the bootline which may help > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466318 > > vga=0x318 > > looks like an option? Found that I could put resolution=640x480, or vga=(same). 100% of the time, on boot, it came up telling me it didn't recognize anything, but gave me about 20 options. I tried several, and it seemed to get a good resolution... but after it switched root, it went back to the original resolution, and *nothing* - trust me on this, I rebooted at least 4 times *nothing* changed the resolution on the GUI installer; it *always* came up with the right hand side chopped. At least the system's doing backups again, now. But I thought I'd be done the rebuild before lunch *yesterday*, not fighting it until I left last night. mark