On 06/12/2015 08:42 PM, John R Pierce wrote:> On 6/12/2015 6:26 PM, jd1008 wrote: >> >> On 06/12/2015 07:22 PM, Always Learning wrote: >>> On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 18:49 -0600, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>>> I am running Centos 6.4 >>>> Could that be the issue? >>> I'm using C 6.6 >>> >>> Try: yum update >>> >>> >> I did. Says nothing marked for update. > > > what does... > > $ cat /etc/redhat-release > > say? If that says 6.4, and yum update doesn't update to the latest > CentOS 6.6, something *is* broken on your system. 6.4 is from 2013...OK, so I am indeed at 6.6 : # cat /etc/centos-release CentOS release 6.6 (Final) But I would still like to get up to 7, but as I indicated in another post, I cannot use the 7's iso because it crashes immediately during boot. Problem with bringing up X. As I also stated in another post, centos 6.4 had no problems with my old graphics card. So, why is centos 7 crapping out?
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:00:52PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:> But I would still like to get up to 7, > but as I indicated in another post, I cannot use the 7's > iso because it crashes immediately during boot. > Problem with bringing up X. > As I also stated in another post, centos 6.4 had no problems > with my old graphics card. So, why is centos 7 crapping out?There are a couple other options from this page you should try, when installing CentOS7: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/chap-anaconda-boot-options.html inst.xdriver=fbdev or inst.usefbx This will use the Framebuffer driver instead of whatever driver the installer is trying to load that then crashes. You could also use VNC, although apparently that's abhorrent. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
On 06/13/2015 07:51 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:00:52PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: >> But I would still like to get up to 7, >> but as I indicated in another post, I cannot use the 7's >> iso because it crashes immediately during boot. >> Problem with bringing up X. >> As I also stated in another post, centos 6.4 had no problems >> with my old graphics card. So, why is centos 7 crapping out? > There are a couple other options from this page you should try, when > installing CentOS7: > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/chap-anaconda-boot-options.html > > inst.xdriver=fbdev > > or > > inst.usefbx > > This will use the Framebuffer driver instead of whatever driver the > installer is trying to load that then crashes. > > You could also use VNC, although apparently that's abhorrent. >Thanx! Will try the boot options to see which one will work.
On 06/13/2015 07:51 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:00:52PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: >> But I would still like to get up to 7, >> but as I indicated in another post, I cannot use the 7's >> iso because it crashes immediately during boot. >> Problem with bringing up X. >> As I also stated in another post, centos 6.4 had no problems >> with my old graphics card. So, why is centos 7 crapping out? > There are a couple other options from this page you should try, when > installing CentOS7: > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/chap-anaconda-boot-options.html > > inst.xdriver=fbdev > > or > > inst.usefbx > > This will use the Framebuffer driver instead of whatever driver the > installer is trying to load that then crashes. > > You could also use VNC, although apparently that's abhorrent. >I tried the the two boot options. They work (i.e. it does not crash. However, it does not let me do manual partitioning. That absolutely sucks and blows at the same time. Who thought this crap out. Also, it does not provide for the option to upgrade. In fact the banner does not even say Install or Upgrade. It just says install and the only partitioning scheme it allows is the automatic one. Not for me!!