Hey guys,
Have you ever used openSUSE on Raspberry Pi (Aarch64) boards? Which image should I try? Thank you
Hi, I run RPi3’s, only used JeOS (minimal) images as they all run command line only…
I use 15.6 on my Pi400 and it works.
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Could you please let me know the download link?
I have a Raspberry Pi 500 (aarch64) and tried with this image:
https://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tumbleweed/appliances/agama-installer.aarch64-17.0.0-openSUSE_PXE-Snapshot20250930.raw.xz
I wrote it to my SD card with:
xzcat agama-installer.aarch64-17.0.0-openSUSE_PXE-Snapshot20250930.raw.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sda status=progress; sync
But it can not boot due to my screenshot
What should I do?
Thank you.
Any hints are welcome.
What about:
https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/appliances/Leap-16.0-Minimal-Image.aarch64.raw.xz
To start with.
I recommend writing images with rpi-imager.
Thank you for your recommendation, but I still have the same problem.
I have no idea why openSUSE does not support Raspberry Pi 500.
Then you need other images…
https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi5
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/RPi5/images/
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Thank you
I downloaded https://downloadcontent.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/RPi5/images/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-KDE-raspberrypi5.aarch64-2025.09.11-Build8.30.raw.xz
Then I wrote it to my SD card using rpi-imager.
It booted, but only shows me the screenshot with a U-Boot icon at the top right of the screen, as shown in the attached photo.
Do you know what I should do now?
Thank you
Any hints are welcome.
Currently Leap 16.0 does not have JeOS images.
Theoretically one could run the installer over UEFI. I tried it but I ran into 1251910 – Leap 16.0 installer does not boot on Raspberry Pi 4.
That would really be ideal, if we could just run the regular agama installer and have a UEFI system. It works for Debian and it used to work for OpenSUSE Leap 15.4.
Thank you for your response,
I’m looking for any openSUSE image that could run on Raspberry Pi 500, but have not found one yet.
I believe the error being related to the current kernel in use. I tried running the Leap 15.6 installer and it had the same error. I also tried running the Leap 15.4 installer, and it did not error but it failed to connect over Ethernet (I used netinstall).
I then tried copying the kernel and initrd from 15.4 to the agama iso. I hoped this would boot agama, but it actually appeared to boot into 15.4 (I guess the installer runs from the initrd?).
This time running the 15.4 installer network did work. And I managed to install Leap 15.4.
I then tried booting the installed system both via u-boot and UEFI. u-boot was buggy and failed booting. The UEFI boot gave a Synchronous Exception at 0x0000000037FCC00.
I am hoping the agama installer could maybe work if it were on a different kernel version.
I think there are TumbleWeed JeOS images that work.
I was wrong about there not being Raspberry Pi images for Leap right now.
You can find it here: https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/appliances/
Does the raspberry pi image there work for you?
Thank you for your responses.
I will try https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/appliances/Leap-16.0-Minimal-Image.aarch64-RaspberryPi-Build14.15.raw.xz with rpi-imager and then let you know the result.
I try this image:
https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/appliances/Leap-16.0-Minimal-Image.aarch64-RaspberryPi-Build14.15.raw.xz
But it could not boot due to my screenshot
@mbzadegan I use zcat and dd to create images on a RPi3 install medium, eg SD Card;
xzcat openSUSE-Leap-15.6-ARM-JeOS-raspberrypi.aarch64-2025.01.29-Build15.13.raw.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=4M iflag=fullblock oflag=direct status=progress
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