How do I get help with Li-f-e?

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Sorry to bother you. I know this is the wrong place, but

How do I get help with Li-f-e?

Thank You.

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I burned ‘openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e.x86_64-13.2.1.iso’ to a USB stick and booted.
The first screen said this:

Welcome to GRUB!
error: file ‘/EFI/BOOT/x86_64-efi/linux.mod’ not found.
error: file ‘/EFI/BOOT/x86_64-efi/ls.mod’ not found.
error: terminal ‘gfxterm’ isn’t found.

Then hundreds of lines flew by. Some had the word “Error” in red. I could not read them.

Then a KDE desktop slowly appeared. I attempted to change the settings using ‘Yast’ (?.. I think so.) It asked for the root password (?.. did it also ask for a name?)

What an awful experience.

Is all this normal?

What do I submit for the root? I read here: ‘https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e#User_accounts_and_passwords’ that there is no root password, but that’s obviously wrong because Yast wouldn’t let me do anything. This page: ‘http://suse-mirror.internetx.de/relnotes/1.0/13.2/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html’ was no help.

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Again, I’m sorry to post this here. I get so frustrated it makes me want to cry.

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How did you write to the USB stick?

It should be written to the raw device, not to a partition on the device.

For example:

# dd if=openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e.x86_64-13.2.1.iso of=/dev/sdX

where “/dev/sdX” is the device for the USB.

Maybe you did it right. I used that iso, and even had it installed for a while. But that was not on a UEFI box, so I would not have run into that problem.

I am pretty sure that the root user is named “root” and the root password is “” (the empty string).

error: terminal ‘gfxterm’ isn’t found.

I think that means that it (grub) did not like your display or graphics card. And maybe that’s why you saw all of those lines, instead of the plymouth screen.

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Why does Linux do that? Why do Linux developers do that? A novice user’s first experience is, when they attempt to kiss Linux, it turns around and farts in their face.

PS: Thanks for the tip. I’ll try again, this time as ‘root’ with null password. Regards – Mark.