Re: Installing Centos 7 on 4K laptop

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On September 27, 2018 5:24:09 PM EDT, vychytraly <vychytraly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hello, not sure what you mean by "There is an option to use TAB to
>complete
>option choices but nomodeset does not seem to be one of the available
>options" but in my experience nomodeset option works pretty well when
>put
>to grub boot parameters.
>
>On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 9:27 PM H <agents@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I have recently bought a Dell Inspiron 15 7570 laptop with a 4K
>display on
>> which I want to install Centos 7. I had some problems with the first
>> install and am therefore redoing the install.
>>
>> One problem is the minuscule font, both in the text window and in the
>> graphic installer. It has been suggested that I should add nomodeset
>to the
>> grub installer. There is an option to use TAB to complete option
>choices
>> but nomodeset does not seem to be one of the available options. Am I
>> missing something? If not nomodeset, is there another option I can
>use in
>> grub to avoid the tiny, tiny text when installing?
>>
>> Also, the swap partition seems to default to 8 Gb rather than th 16
>Gb
>> required to hibernate the machine. Is this a bug in Centos 7 that it
>does
>> not default to the memory size of the machine?
>>
>>
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Edit the grub options when booting using TAB to complete an option and you'll see what I mean.
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