RHEL7 GA - Anaconda doesn't display correctly as a VSphere guest
While attempting to customize the disk partitioning on a RHEL 7 guest, Anaconda's rightmost quarter of the screen is cut off. I think that the guest is not telling VMWare what size display to use. After you get past Anaconda all is well and autosizing works fine.
This is annoying as I cannot do a manual build within VMWare if I want custom partitioning and really who doesn't want custom partitions?
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Hey Kodiak - which method are you using for a VM console (Web or fat-client, etc..)? I am wondering if using full screen for the client would resolve the issue.
I was unable to find supporting docs specific to RHEL 7, but... have you tried the following:
linux resolution=1024x768
I got this from the Fedora 13 guide
9.1.2. Configuring the Interface
You may force the installation system to use the lowest possible screen resolution (640x480) with the lowres option. To use a specific display resolution, enter resolution=setting as a boot option. For example, to set the display resolution to 1024x768, enter:
The Fedora 20 guide provides a few more ways
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/ap-admin-options.html
I had a similar problem on VMware Fusion, from memory I switched the installer to text mode to work around it.
I tried a lot of params:
resolution=AAAxBBB
inst.resolution=AAAxBBB
xdriver=vmware
inst.xdriver=vmware
The resolution is good, but the Anaconda's Window is still very large.
The only one solution is to add "vga=773" at the end of the line.
Thanks https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7313.
Good to be VMware certified... Huge bug at the beginning of the installation.
Try CentOS, you'll have a better support :-)
In case somebody is facing this issue with RHEL 7.1 or similar:
This issue was encountered on versions prior to RHEL 7.2 and has been adressed in the following KCS:
"Manual Partitioning" screen/spoke of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installer is clipped or not complete https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1449843
The workaround was to append the parameter vga=773 at installation prompt.
Bugzillas have been resolved by the following Errata: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2284.html
The issue is deemed to have been resolved, starting from RHEL 7.2.
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