On 1 February, 2014 10:18:25 AM PST, Paul Wouters <p...@nohats.ca> wrote: > >Hi, > >I tried to help a friend upgrade his redhat 7.3 server (!) to >something more modern. Since his server's BIOS had issues with >booting from DVD, I setup a PXE environment on my laptop and >booted the net-install (and later the live image) kernel and >ram disk. > >After PXE boot, and leaving the live CD in the drive, Anaconda >was able to boot the live environment. But when it tried to >enter graphics (X) the monitor reported "out of range" errors. > >Changing the old LCD monitor to a 21" modern one gave the exact >same results - clearly the machine is trying something very >unreasonable rejected even on LCD's less than a year old. > >The linux text console worked fine and showed the boot process. > >I could even login as root and issue commands, but since this >environment was a live cd, I could not figure out how to modify >the X config and restart X to make this work. > >Adding "text" to the kernel parameters did not enable a text-based >installer, and teh same out of range error apepared on the montior. >Has this functionality been depricated? > >It seems these problems have been happening on and off on fedora's, >and it is not a f20 or f18+ anacondo issue alone? > >Attempted workarounds included passing "text", "nomodeset", and >various video= lines. None of which prevented "out of range" errors. > > >It seems the last alternative to try is a vnc based install :( > >If anyone has another trick up their sleeve, I'd be interested. And if >so, that trick should be added to the installer documentation (which >was actually reasoanbly good, but unfortunately did not help us) > >Paul >-- >devel mailing list >devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
You can't do a text install from a live image, but you can from DVD or net inst. We'd need the x logs to know what was going on with x startup. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin DOT net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
