Installation Leap 16.0 from downloaded ISO

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I needed to install Leap 16.0 and I get messages followed by

Starting Dracut emergency Shell...
Warning /dev/disk/by/label/Install-leap-16.0-x86_64 does not exist
Warning /dev/root does not exist

Well, that is correct, that label (Install…x86_64) is too long to be used as a label (tried with fat32 and with ext4).

I tried ISO images (both online and offline version) and tried numerous way to get it onto USB (bash with dd, unetbootin, Windows Rufus, ISO and DD method). All produced the same error (or the initialising resulted in a black screen and unresponsive computer), whether I choose Install, failsafe install, of check installation medium.

I found https://forums.opensuse.org/t/booting-the-new-iso-versions-install-from-the-grub-menu/192656
and there the same messages appear (in my case followed after some time by the message on top.

I found https://forums.opensuse.org/t/installation-von-opensuse-16-0-leap-nicht-moglich/191788 and tried the edit grub option. That worked. Finally.

Since the behaviour I experienced is not limited to myself, see above links, either something is not OK with the ISO download files or the instructions miss vital information.
Should I write a bug report?

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It is always better to show instead of telling the story. There can be things going wrong other then only the command itself. E.g. you should copy to the device and not to a partition. Those are things that can be seen when you copy/paste the command here.

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You’re right.
However as this post isn’t about me needing help to install Leap, but about the unexpected (unwanted) behaviour regardless of the way I created a bootable USB I refrained from adding all exact steps I executed. I followed the instructions on the download page for openSUSE Leap 16.0. and they seemed clear -apart from the suggestion to use ImageWriter, which is no longer available in the standard repos.

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@Dnk1287 Did you verify the checksum, look at using the dd command to create the Agama USB install media.

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Yes, I did verify the checksum and (also) used the dd command (with which I finally installed Leap after adding nomodeset to the grub linux:-line).

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So installing on a system with Nvidia hardware? Known problem, please see nvidia-and-graphics-issues-with-the-installation-image available starting from the Release Notes link on the https://get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0/ download page.

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