[rhelv6-list] Help with kickstart %pre

[Michael Coffman]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Prentice Bisbal <prentice at ias.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.

Even better.  Thanks for the pointer.

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> Prentice
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