Upgrading freezes immediately with "Welcome to GRUB!"

Henriette1999 · April 1, 2020, 10:47am

Running system Opensuse 15.0 ( I need to upgrade)

I’ve downloaded the iso file for Opensuse 15.1
Then writing it to an USB stick with Imagewriter 1.10 (no error messages)
Booting the USB stick freezes with the message “Welcome to GRUB!”

What can I do?

karlmistelberger · April 1, 2020, 11:45am

You ca do:

Tell which iso. There are many: openSUSE Leap - Get openSUSE
Verify the checksum of the downloaded iso: SDB:Download help - openSUSE Wiki
Check file systems on stick for integrity

Henriette1999 · April 1, 2020, 1:16pm

Thank you for your quick response.

It is openSUSE-Leap-15.1-DVD-x86_64.iso
sha256sum -c openSUSE-Leap-15.1-DVD-x86_64.iso.sha256
—> openSUSE-Leap-15.1-DVD-x86_64.iso: OK
stat -c ‘%s’ openSUSE-Leap-15.1-DVD-x86_64.iso
—> 4056940544
cmp -n 4056940544 openSUSE-Leap-15.1-DVD-x86_64.iso /dev/sde1
—> no output (identical files)

The stick works fine on a second computer.

karlmistelberger · April 1, 2020, 1:25pm

Problem could be related to UEFI. Resetting mainboard to defaults might help.

Svyatko · April 1, 2020, 2:42pm

SUSE Studio Image Writer or ImageWriter?

gogalthorp · April 1, 2020, 3:47pm

If stick work on another machine tell us about the one it does not work on.

Henriette1999 · April 1, 2020, 7:17pm

ok, consulting my bios, searching for UEFI, but changing “nothing” (!!??), the upgrade is now finished.

Thanks a lot for your time.rotfl!