Hi,
booting the latest openSUSE Netinstall in a VM on an openSUSE based KVM host, the installer does not load if no VGA adapter is attached, i.e. the boot is happening in Serial Console mode. Whilst in UEFI mode (tried with different OVMF EFI files) it gets stuck upon choosing the Install option in GRUB at "Loading initial ramdisk...", in Legacy/BIOS mode, after applying the solution shown in https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000019728, it gets suck at a black screen upon typing 'linux' as the GRUB boot option.
The following kernel/linuxrc parameters have been attempted with no change in outcome: dis_ucode_ldr textmode=1 splash=verbose
dis_ucode_ldr
textmode=1
splash=verbose
The removal of the set gfxpayload=keep line has been attempted with no change in outcome.
set gfxpayload=keep
The serial device being used is the default that is set in the openSUSE Leap 15.3 VM template XML:
<serial type="pty"> <source path="/dev/pts/7"/> <target type="isa-serial" port="0"> <model name="isa-serial"/> </target> <alias name="serial0"/> </serial>
Are further options required for openSUSE/SLES to boot the installer in serial mode?
Cheers, Georg
We definitely need to document this also on openSUSE wiki, and I think the menu option with proper console params console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 should be easy to add.
console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
SUSE docs https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000016233
Metadata Update from @lkocman: - Custom field openSUSE Bugzilla adjusted to https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188298
Let's do a simple research around other distributions otherwise documenting this on our openSUSE wiki is a must have. Also it should be in our getting started guide that is part of openSUSE Leap box.
Metadata Update from @lkocman: - Issue assigned to lkocman
Linking documentation https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SerialConsole
The missing part is now the grub entry
Suggesting for Leap 16.0
Metadata Update from @lkocman: - Issue set to the milestone: 16.0
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