we are currently in the process of preparing an autoyast based installation for hp proliant servers and we would like to control the installation by the ILO management console that accesses the bios console via a browser based interface. For this to work, the installation has to stay in textmode and not switch to framebuffer based display since that doesn't work with the ILO interface. When booting an installation CD this can be achieved with a parameter textmode=1 in isolinux.cfg, however when yast running in textmode starts the linux kernel, it switches to framebuffer display. It would be necessary to have some kind of configuration option that can be set to force textmode in the kernel boot process, but we didn't find such an option. When the installation process is started without the option textmode=1, setting textmode in the option screen by pressing F2 everything works, i.e. the kernel boots in textmode as well, but since the default option is booting in framebuffer mode, this is not useful. We would appreciate any pointers how this can be done. TIA