I haven’t successfully installed any linux os in an incredibly long time due to running into random issues such as this. If someone could please help as though the most I know how to do is use windows, because that’s the case. Being sent to a page with a ton of text like SDB:Linuxrc - openSUSE Wiki is not helpful. My eyes glaze over and it makes me more frustrated. I’ve already looked at this.
I’m attempting to install Leap 15.4 and got to a menu that didn’t get me anywhere. When I pressed escape I got sent to the below menu. https://i.imgur.com/KJwQg8R.jpeg
When I select Hard disk it shows a few partitions for what I think is the OS currently installed, windows 10, When I choose any of them it says media not found which makes sense. No other option lets me choose the usb I am actively installing from. When I try to verify installation medium it shows this menu. https://i.imgur.com/s0PNRz4.jpeg
None of these are right thing and “other devices” asks me for a path. How do I fix this? I loaded opensus onto the drive using balenaEtcher and it succeeded verification. Any time I look for how to install opensuse no one ever sees linuxrc, it just goes straight to the correct installation interface. I do have internet on that pc and could use Network install if there was an official location to install from.
balenaEtcher is borking your installation image. Use the official GUI/commandline tools recommended by openSuse.
See steps under “Easy Ways to Switch to openSUSE Leap” here: https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.4/#download (there are also the network installation images to find…)
Someone replied with a link to the iso page and said it was being broken by balena. I went there and tried Rufus, that just failed in the same way as well. Although the initial screen was grey and older looking this time.
I may not be the one who can help you a lot. But the ones who can will need more information. From what source are you trying to install? Where did you get it from, did you verify the checksum? As I get it the installer is not able to find a suitable medium although you are shown partitions of your hdd.
Just a guess: Is your current system booting with UEFI? How was your install medium created? If it was made with BIOS boot it is not compatible to your system and vice versa.
The web version finally finished loading and has actually worked. So I suppose I no longer need help, but it was very weird. I did nothing different besides use web instead of offline. I verified both checksums and both are good, I booted with both uefi and without. Both failed for offline, I only tried without for the web version.
