Custom CentOS 5 wont boot into graphical installer

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:18:02 +0200 Eike Kuiper <freeman1801 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> i want to make a dvd with custom rpms from a CentOS
> 5 in order to install it on my servers. I created this dvd with anaconda 
> and it worked great, but i have a problem with the graphical installer, 
> which would not start. in text mode i may install the system, but i have 
> to configure a raid 1 and lvm and this is not available in text mode.

I think you can get around this by using the CLI tools (do a Ctrl-Alt-F2
to get to the shell).

> 
> All graphical packages are recompiled on my system, which has the same 
> kernel, the servers would have.
> 
> I get following error every time i want to install the server (pasting 
> it from X.log):
> 
> ...
> (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org foundation"
> compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
> ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
> (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
> (EE) VESA(0): Cannot shmat() low memory
> (EE) VESA(0): shmat(low_mem) error: Invalid argument
> (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
> (II) UnloadModule: "int10"
> ...
> 
> (EE) Sreen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> I've tried to change the anaconda version to newest (11.1.2.250-1), 
> tried to change the xorg-x11-server-Xorg and changed the xorg-x11-drv-* 
> files.
> I also updated all old packages and recompiled them on my system, but i 
> dont get it work.
> 
> Does anyone have an answer to this?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> infy
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