[rhelv6-list] Help with kickstart %pre

[Michael Coffman]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Hugh Brown <hbrown at divms.uiowa.edu> wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 12:13 PM, Michael Coffman wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a way to change the screen resolution that is used during the
>> kickstart %pre section?   I use the pre section of the kickstart on
>> RHEL4 and 5 to query the user doing the install for input.   RHEL4 and
>> 5 default to vga with fairly large fonts.   As of RHEL6 it seems to
>> discover the hardware and then adjusts the display.  The result is a
>> very tiny font.   I do installs via a pxeboot server and have tried
>> various options to the append line
>> for the pxe kernel with no affect.  Any input would be greatly appreciated
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
> If the machines are using the nouveau driver, you can probably append
> nouveau.modeset=0 to the pxe command line for the kernel.
>
> I think that should give you back the old behavior.

Thanks much.  That worked.

>
> You can also put a sleep in the pre section, switch to the vt on F2. cat
> /proc/cmdline to see how the kernel got started and check to see if there's
> an obvious parameter that can be adjusted.
>
> Hugh



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-MichaelC