Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 15:48, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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