Problem with CentOS 7 in Vmware

[computerfan7702]

Hello all, I have used a lot of linux distros in the past such as Ubuntu, Mint, and even dabbled in Debian and finally trying out centOS7. I just got VMware from a friend over the weekend, but I seem to have run into this issue. I know it's a different system (YUM) then APT (Ubuntu, Mint etc) but this message appears. I know the fix is to remove .config/monitors.xml, but how can I achieve this if I can't get to a terminal to apply the required commands? And how would you in a terminal remove it?

[vanecka]

Hi,

You have two options.

Boot from the ISO, when grub displays, press TAB (for more options)
You will see a line such as:

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> vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS\x207\x20x86_64 rd.live.check quiet

Option :. Try to force a VGA mode that the screen emulation should support.
I'm not too familiar with VMWare any more but you can try to for the VGA mode for the installer as follows:
Add something such as the following at the end of the above mentioned line:

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vga=769

#so it becomes:
> vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS\x207\x20x86_64 rd.live.check quiet vga=769

Try some VGA modes until one works. See: http://pierre.baudu.in/other/grub.vga.modes.html for a list
of modes you can try.

Option 2: Boot in the same manner as above, but instead of setting vga=xxx, add "text" at the end of the line:

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> vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS\x207\x20x86_64 rd.live.check quiet text

This will give you a text based installer (not pretty) but it should work.

[TrevorH]

Or use vnc instead of text and then the installer starts up a VNC session on the machine and you can connect to that from another machine and get the GUI installer that way.

[computerfan7702]

Option two has worked. The only reason why I have VMware is because I have Windows 7 (main/host), Windows 10 tech (120 GB), centOS 7 (120 GB) and Ubuntu 14.04 (120 GB)
Is this a common issue with the monitors not configured correctly?

[computerfan7702]

I spoke too soon. I can boot into recovery or main. If I boot into recovery, could I edit as you have described?

[computerfan7702]

Just rebooted and here is what I see.

(Sorry for all the questions, i'm extremely new to centOS, but not Linux).

[vanecka]

Hi Again,

As TrevorH noted:

Or use vnc instead of text and then the installer starts up a VNC session on the machine and you can connect to that from another machine and get the GUI installer that way.

Maybe try installing using VNC:

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vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS\x207\x20x86_64 rd.live.check quiet vnc vncpassword=123456 ip=192.168.122.19

Just replace the ipaddress and vnc password.

Is this a common issue with the monitors not configured correctly?

No, I've had no problems and I also tried using virt-manager (QEMU) and KVM works fine.
I think it is more a VMWare issue, but its been +-8 years since I used VMWare (desktop) and 15 years since using Windows, so I can't really be of more assistance on that front.
Perhaps when creating the virtual machine, make sure you select something like new "RedHat EL 7" machine or something in that range.