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Old 10-18-2017, 03:28 PM   #1
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Question OpenSuse Tumbleweed boots into grub prompt


I made a USB drive from the official OpenSuse Tumbleweed download page, booted from it - and got only the `grub` prompt.

How can I boot and (hopefully) install the OS ?
 
Old 10-18-2017, 03:32 PM   #2
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without knowing exactly what image you used ???
https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/tumbleweed

the dvd/usb?
the netinstall
or Kubic

and without knowing exactly HOW you made the bootable usb ???

using dd ?
or some random program from the net ?
 
Old 10-19-2017, 05:30 AM   #3
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Hi,

I used the DVD/USB stick image and did the booting drive with "dd" command, following these steps:

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB...e_ISO_to_USB_2

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Petar
 
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thumb drives tend to be fat32 , this is normally on issue when using dd
but there can be preinstalled partitions on it sometimes

use gparted to "reformat" it to ext4 and use a gpt table ( only one partition )

then redo the dd of the iso image to the drive
 
Old 10-19-2017, 12:12 PM   #5
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Wink damn :D

I used "mkfs.vfat" before I did the "dd" ...
I'll try with ext4 and let you know

Thanks
 
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I formatted the flash drive with "mkfs.ext4" and then wrote the ISO on the USB with the "dd" command ... like this:

Code:
sudo dd if=./openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20171018-Media.iso of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4M && sync
However, I still get only the grub prompt ... the "Minimal bash-like...." stuff.

Am I missing something ?
 
Old 10-20-2017, 05:31 AM   #7
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Code:
sudo dd if=./openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20171018-Media.iso of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4M && sync
Am I missing something ?
I may be wrong because it's a while since I did this but I thought you "dd'd" to the whole drive ie
Code:
dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/sdb ...
 
Old 10-20-2017, 11:07 AM   #8
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here is your problem
Quote:
of=/dev/sdb1
this is why i asked for exactly what you did
 
Old 10-21-2017, 02:30 PM   #9
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Wink Thanks :)

Yep, specifying /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 did the job for me

(Although ... I expected to have live CD option ... ? ...)

Anyway ... thanks, guys
 
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Although ... I expected to have live CD option ... ? ...
Why ?
you did not use a live image

see:

https://software.opensuse.org/distri...ed/unsupported
 
  


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