Leap 16 online iso installer gets stucked at "Finished Virtual console setup" message

[F_style]

I’m using a Grub2 multiboot USB drive to boot Linux distribution ISOs.

Menuentry for Leap 16.0 is

menuentry “openSUSE Leap ISO” {
set isofile=“/your-folder/openSUSE-Leap-DVD-x86_64.iso”
set root=(hd0,5)
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/boot/x86_64/loader/linux install=hd:$isofile splash=silent quiet
initrd (loop)/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd

So ISO boots fine and enters plymouth, but here in plymouth installation gets eternally stuck at the message in title.

I already tried verifying the ISO checksum and re-downloading the ISO several times.

Any help? Thanks.

[deano_ferrari]

You could try adding iso-scan/filename=$isofile to the linux line. This option does exactly what is needed when booting an ISO via a GRUB loopback device.

It is documented in man dracut.cmdline under “iso-scan/filename”, and says that the parameter causes dracut to mount the available devices and search for the ISO specified by the argument, then set the ISO up as a loop device.

The man page also provides a GRUB loopback example using iso-scan/filename=$isofile.

So in your case, try changing

linux (loop)/boot/x86_64/loader/linux install=hd:$isofile splash=silent quiet

to

linux (loop)/boot/x86_64/loader/linux install=hd:$isofile iso-scan/filename=$isofile splash=silent quiet

[F_style]

Thanks sir!
That did the thing!

[deano_ferrari]

Good result!