Installing with misbehaving display?

[dswartz]

I'm trying to install proxmox 3.4 on a host with a supermicro motherboard, with builtin VGA. It comes up to the splash screen with only a small part of the license screen showing. The Abort button is visible towards the bottom of the screen, but the 'I agree' is apparently off to the right, so I can't click on it. Tab select is not doing anything useful either Any ideas? (and no, I don't have any random graphics cards sitting around - these are supposed to be headless servers...)

Update: I thought the splash screen looked different, so I downloaded 3.3 and that installed fine. I guess I can do an update now, but something seems wrong here...

 

[Mr.Holmes]

Hello dswartz

I'm trying to install proxmox 3.4 on a host with a supermicro motherboard, with builtin VGA. It comes up to the splash screen with only a small part of the license screen showing. The Abort button is visible towards the bottom of the screen, but the 'I agree' is apparently off to the right, so I can't click on it. Tab select is not doing anything useful either Any ideas? (and no, I don't have any random graphics cards sitting around - these are supposed to be headless servers...)

Sometimes there are problems with the resolution - depends possibly on both graphic card and display monitor.


How I used to managed this:

press alt + <letter for continuation>, usually it´s alt+N (for Next); the first screen e.g. expects alt+G (for aGree).

What it is in detail you can figure out by making the installation process in a virtual environment (Vmware, vbox or even Proxmox itself) where you can see the complete screen.


kind regards

Mr.Holmes

 

[dswartz]

Whatever it was, it didn't behave that way in 3.3. Also, this is a generic VGA display on a standard motherboard I/O backplane.

 

[robsablah]

Just FYI. (sorry to revive an old thread)I found this off google as I couldn't see the proxmox install also and this was REALLY helpful.Dell R610 with generic VGA, tested 2 monitors. proxmox-ve_4.0-0d8559d0-17 download

 

[proksmoks]

This helped me greatly. Generic VGA and 3-year old consumer motherboard.

Alt-G and Alt-N was crucial.

Alt-R at the end; probably for Installation finished, now Reboot (I don't know, wasn't visible ).

 

[phimat]

Same problem testing version 6.3 in Virtualbox - can't see right-side of the screen. The above works except you now need Alt-i at the end (presumably for Install, but I can't see it).