Well, I forgot that you're booting with secure boot. KOTD (kernel-of-the-day) isn't signed with a proper key, so it won't be bootable with secure boot, unfortunately. Can you disable the secure boot temporarily for testing? Basically you need to download kernel-default-4.4.*.rpm from the following URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/openSUSE-42.2/standard/x86_64/ Then install it via zypper in kernel-default-4.4.*.rpm If it complains about the vendor change, answer to ignore ('i'). Then reboot with this kernel (choose the kernel via GRUB menu) and retest without nopti option.