[rhelv6-list] Help with kickstart %pre

[Prentice Bisbal]

On 02/09/2012 01:51 PM, Michael Coffman wrote:
> 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.
>
How about just adding 'nomodeset' to your kernel args?  That might be
more generic/portable.

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Prentice