As per the attached image, I am getting this error when I try to install Opensuse lap on a notebook. It seems that it loses the reference to the USB in the middle of the installation. It is not a problem with the USB, because I installed Ubuntu via USB on the same machine, but I do not want this OS, I want Opensuse
Developers, any ideas? need more information ?
How was the image copied to the USB?? You must copy an unmodified image to the drive not a partition on the drive.
I have used the latest version of Opensuse Leap. I burned the ISO to the USB pendrive directly using UNETBOOTIN, I did the same with the UBUNTU that was installed.
Maybe use another burning tool:
https://en.opensuse.org/Create_installation_USB_stick
Have you checked the downloaded ISO for errers with th checksum?
Unlike other distro’s the iso is boot ready you just need to do a pure binary copy without mods to the device not a partition on the device. . use the Linnux cp command some use dd if from Windows
The captured screenshot doesn’t show enough detail for the “Empty Destination” horizontal scrollable field (it’s chopped off).
(sidenote: we use the “dd” command to burn ISOs … been around forever, reliable, very flexible, found on all U/Li/nux systems).
I read all the answers here, and I really appreciate the feedback. Well, I chose to use DD. Since I already installed Ubuntu on my notebook, I downloaded the ISO there, and installed it on the USB with DD. But when I tried to boot, this message appeared and I don’t know what it is. I’ve already researched it, but I didn’t understand much. Regardless of whether I let the notebook start by itself or press F11 to enter the boot menu, and choose the USB, it’s the same. Could it be Ubuntu influencing it? Because in principle it shouldn’t, the Opensuse Leap installer should start.
Error Image:
It is not really an error, it means that grub cannot find its configuration file. On this screen run
set
ls
and post photo of the complete output. If output scrolls off the screen, enable paging
set pager=1
and make two photos.
Thank you very much for help me… images attached…
It’s not allowing me to attach 2 images to the answer, even though they don’t add up to more than 512KB together. I’ll try to include them in the next answer.
In the grub CLI show output of
ls (hd0)/EFI/BOOT
ls (hd0,msdos1)/EFI/BOOT
Thank you for helping me. Below is the output of the 2 commands. The interesting one is msdos1. I thought that when installing Ubuntu it had cleaned the HD.
Try
set root=hd0,msdos1
set prefix=($root)/EFI/BOOT
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
How exactly did you do it? Which device have you used? Never tell stories - copy and paste the exact commands and their output.
It actually sounds like you used DD (which is completely unknown to us - the command is called dd and yes, upper case and lower case are different) on a partition instead of the whole disk.
Yes , I have used “dd”, ony I put in caps was my fault:
dd if=<file.iso> of=/dev/sdb1
It worked. I installed Opensuse… I don’t know if UBUNTU was removed or overwritten. But now it doesn’t even go to the menu to choose the OS, but I can choice between start Ubuntu or Openuse with F11 - menu boot of the notebook.
The following is the set and ls command requested last time.
I’ll assume that’s the problem - should be:
dd if=<file.iso> of=/dev/sdb
You specified a partition.
So that was it… I’ve already managed to install it, but it’s giving the error above… it starts, but I need to use the notebook’s boot menu. If I have to install it again, I’ll see about doing that… I’ve already noted down your tip, thanks for the help.