Installation VNC boot options

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Hi and Happy New Year.

I installed tumbleweed (tw) on a laptop that has backlight issue with the screen - that is it isn’t on all the time. I managed to enter the boot options vnc=1 and vncpassword=somepw before the screen died again and completed the install successfully remotely. The laptop is just used as a nfs file server.

However, it got me thinking if I could directly add the vnc boot options in the tw USB install media so that if I have to install remotely again I won’t have to worry about that screen going blank.

I had a quick look through the install media and couldn’t see any obvious file to edit apart from gfxboot.cfg which I’m still deciphering.

So, can boot options be added directly to the install media. Also can the media be defaulted to ‘Installation’ instead of ‘Boot from hard disk’?

Thanks,
Chris.

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The most generic method is to use autoyast. Otherwise you need to edit boot/x86_64/loader/isolinux.cfg for legacy BIOS boot and EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg for UEFI boot.

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Thanks for that. I had a quick read of the Autoyast in the opensuse docs pages - may have to sit down and have a better read later. May be a good technique if I get more headless machines.

I couldn’t find any detailed literature on the isolinux.cfg structure/syntax.

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https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Config

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Thank you!!! I knew of that page but there was no entry for that title in the left hand index. More reading :slight_smile: