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cyberbandya

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From: India भारत देश

Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Console screen garbled installing to HP Proliant ML10 server

Hi,

We have bought a new HP proliant ML10 for replacing the machine that is being used as the main server of our school and running debian-edu / skolelinux.

Considering the cutting edge software and etc benefits of arch, I'm planning to setup dual boot the main server with skolelinux for current use and arch alongside. I can experiment with arch in the time when no one uses the server/clients (night time). My plan is to setup arch to server diskless clients and do a migration from debian-edu / skolelinux. This seems ok to me from security standpoint as we used to have all MS win machines with no firewall at all before we migrated everything to linux a few months back.

Now to the problem,

While using the latest dual USB arch install media, I do get an initial root console but it is looking diagonal and totally garbled, hard to read.

here is the lspci output obtained by booting the HP server as diskless from our old debian server

root@auto-mac-9c-b6-54-af-6e-7a:/skole/tjener/home0/uday# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/Ivy Bridge DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b5)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev b5)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C204 Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 System peripheral: Hewlett-Packard Company Integrated Lights-Out Standard Slave Instrumentation & System Support (rev 05)
01:00.1 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200EH
01:00.2 System peripheral: Hewlett-Packard Company Integrated Lights-Out Standard Management Processor Support and Messaging (rev 05)
01:00.4 USB controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Integrated Lights-Out Standard Virtual USB Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
0a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
0d:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

The default screen resolution is 1366 X 768

I think that's all what I can provide.

Thanks

Last edited by cyberbandya (2015-04-18 01:21:33)

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cyberbandya

Member

From: India भारत देश

Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Console screen garbled installing to HP Proliant ML10 server

Adding

nomodeset vga=791

to kernel parameters of install media solves the issue

Reference

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … de_setting

Thanks
UDAY

Last edited by cyberbandya (2015-04-18 01:19:57)

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination AND SO We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.