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Freek de Kruijf

28 Oct 2015 28 Oct '15

22:26

I tried to boot from a USB stick on which I wrote the iso image of the latest Tumbleed 20151022 using SUSE Studio Imagewriter on a Dell laptop Lattitude E5500. Obviously I rearranged in the BIOS to start looking for a bootable image from a USB device. The laptop did not see a bootable image on the USB stick and started from the hard disc. I searched the Internet for a solution, but did not find one. Anyone succeeded in installing openSUSE on this laptop? -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

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Stefan Bruens

29 Oct 29 Oct

03:00

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 23:26:15 Freek de Kruijf wrote:

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I tried to boot from a USB stick on which I wrote the iso image of the latest Tumbleed 20151022 using SUSE Studio Imagewriter on a Dell laptop Lattitude E5500.

Obviously I rearranged in the BIOS to start looking for a bootable image from a USB device.

The laptop did not see a bootable image on the USB stick and started from the hard disc.

I searched the Internet for a solution, but did not find one.

Anyone succeeded in installing openSUSE on this laptop?

Are you sure you wrote the Image to the raw stick, not its first partition? Kind regards, Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Bergstraße 21 / 52062 Aachen home: +49 241 53809034 mobile: +49 151 50412019 work: +49 2405 49936-424 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Freek de Kruijf

30 Oct 30 Oct

10:07

Op donderdag 29 oktober 2015 04:00:13 schreef Stefan Bruens:

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On Wednesday 28 October 2015 23:26:15 Freek de Kruijf wrote:

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I tried to boot from a USB stick on which I wrote the iso image of the latest Tumbleed 20151022 using SUSE Studio Imagewriter on a Dell laptop Lattitude E5500.

Obviously I rearranged in the BIOS to start looking for a bootable image from a USB device.

The laptop did not see a bootable image on the USB stick and started from the hard disc.

I searched the Internet for a solution, but did not find one.

Anyone succeeded in installing openSUSE on this laptop?

Are you sure you wrote the Image to the raw stick, not its first partition?

I always use SUSE Studio Imagewriter to prepare a bootable USB stick and it always worked. I assume below the surface dd is used to write the image on the stick. I will follow the route about the boot flag. I also found easy2boot which is supposed to boot its own image on the USB stick, after which you can choose which iso image to boot from. You can have several iso images on the stick. -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

12:10

On 2015-10-30 11:07, Freek de Kruijf wrote:

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I always use SUSE Studio Imagewriter to prepare a bootable USB stick and it always worked. I assume below the surface dd is used to write the image on the stick.

A plain "cp" works ;-) It is easier to use than "dd". But the basic issue is the same: you have to point it to the device representing the stick, not to a partition on it, nor to the filesystem.

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I also found easy2boot which is supposed to boot its own image on the USB stick, after which you can choose which iso image to boot from. You can have several iso images on the stick.

This might not work with openSUSE images. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

Trent Hawkins

29 Oct 29 Oct

03:22

On 29 October 2015 at 09:26, Freek de Kruijf wrote:

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I tried to boot from a USB stick on which I wrote the iso image of the latest Tumbleed 20151022 using SUSE Studio Imagewriter on a Dell laptop Lattitude E5500.

Obviously I rearranged in the BIOS to start looking for a bootable image from a USB device.

The laptop did not see a bootable image on the USB stick and started from the hard disc.

I searched the Internet for a solution, but did not find one.

Anyone succeeded in installing openSUSE on this laptop?

Maybe just dd to USB? Also I used to have a Dell and vaguely remember being able to directly select the device to boot from/rather than just fixing the boot order? Trent

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Trent Hawkins

03:23

On 29 October 2015 at 09:26, Freek de Kruijf wrote:

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I tried to boot from a USB stick on which I wrote the iso image of the latest Tumbleed 20151022 using SUSE Studio Imagewriter on a Dell laptop Lattitude E5500.

Obviously I rearranged in the BIOS to start looking for a bootable image from a USB device.

The laptop did not see a bootable image on the USB stick and started from the hard disc.

I searched the Internet for a solution, but did not find one.

Anyone succeeded in installing openSUSE on this laptop?

Maybe just dd to USB? Also I used to have a Dell and vaguely remember being able to directly select the device to boot from/rather than just changing the boot order? Trent

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C. Brouerius van Nidek

06:11

On Thursday, October 29, 2015 02:23:47 PM Trent Hawkins wrote:

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On 29 October 2015 at 09:26, Freek de Kruijf wrote:

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I tried to boot from a USB stick on which I wrote the iso image of the latest Tumbleed 20151022 using SUSE Studio Imagewriter on a Dell laptop Lattitude E5500.

Obviously I rearranged in the BIOS to start looking for a bootable image from a USB device.

The laptop did not see a bootable image on the USB stick and started from the hard disc.

I searched the Internet for a solution, but did not find one.

Anyone succeeded in installing openSUSE on this laptop?

Maybe just dd to USB?

Also I used to have a Dell and vaguely remember being able to directly select the device to boot from/rather than just changing the boot order?

Trent

Remember (that I think Felix Miata had) a method of installing an Iso from Grub. Do not know how that works with Grub2 but suggest that you start Googling for something like "installing Iso with Grub'" Changing that to a workable installation method also for Grub2 could not be that difficult. In that case you just copied the iso on your harddisk and you had to make an entrance in Grub. Groetjes, Constant Linux User 183145 using KDE4 Tumbleweed on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 20151022 (x86_64) Kernel: 4.2.3-4.g549889b-default KDE Development Platform: 4.14.12 12:59pm up 1 day 1:02, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.22, 0.31 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Greg Freemyer

30 Oct 30 Oct

20:50

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Trent Hawkins wrote:

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On 29 October 2015 at 09:26, Freek de Kruijf wrote:

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I tried to boot from a USB stick on which I wrote the iso image of the latest Tumbleed 20151022 using SUSE Studio Imagewriter on a Dell laptop Lattitude E5500.

Obviously I rearranged in the BIOS to start looking for a bootable image from a USB device.

The laptop did not see a bootable image on the USB stick and started from the hard disc.

I searched the Internet for a solution, but did not find one.

Anyone succeeded in installing openSUSE on this laptop?

Maybe just dd to USB?

Also I used to have a Dell and vaguely remember being able to directly select the device to boot from/rather than just changing the boot order?

My job has me booting computers via CD/DVD routinely. For most Dell's made in the last decade "F12" pulls up a boot menu. == this may or may not relate to Dells. I don't recall. == If the bios has UEFI mode enabled and your boot media isn't UEFI compatible, you may still not see your USB stick in the boot menu. If that is the case go into the bios and put it into legacy mode. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Ken Schneider

29 Oct 29 Oct

13:13

On 10/28/2015 06:26 PM, Freek de Kruijf wrote:

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I tried to boot from a USB stick on which I wrote the iso image of the latest Tumbleed 20151022 using SUSE Studio Imagewriter on a Dell laptop Lattitude E5500.

Obviously I rearranged in the BIOS to start looking for a bootable image from a USB device.

The laptop did not see a bootable image on the USB stick and started from the hard disc.

I searched the Internet for a solution, but did not find one.

Anyone succeeded in installing openSUSE on this laptop?

I had a similar issue with a different OS and it turned out that the "boot" flag was not properly set. I ended up using gparted to set the boot and active flags. HTH -- Ken linux since 1994 S.U.s.E./openSUSE since 1996 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

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C. Brouerius van Nidek
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Freek de Kruijf
Greg Freemyer
Ken Schneider
Stefan Bruens
Trent Hawkins
Trent Hawkins