f20, anaconda, net install and video out of range ....

[Adam Williamson]

On 1 February, 2014 10:18:25 AM PST, Paul Wouters <paul at 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
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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.
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