On 2018-07-16 19:47, James PEARSON wrote:
Hello
On Sunday the 15th of Jul 2018 Felix Miata wrote : Did you burn the .iso to DVD, or stick? If only one, try the other. I have yet to install any version of openSUSE from a stick. From DVD to UEFI I just did again last week or so.
I have been installing openSUSE using usb sticks for quite some time. I would be hard pressed to say how long....
I tried adding nomodeset on the boot menu page like this (this is on an usb stick installation) : linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux splash=verbose nomodeset
Then I waited 10 minutes or so after which I hit Ctrl + X or F10 to contine booting. Nothing ever happened. I did try switch to text console (ctrl-alt-f1) but no luck.
For test # 2, I burnt openSUSE-Leap-15.0-DVD-x86_64.iso that I downloaded 2 days ago to a DVD medium. I must admit that it has been quite a few years since I burnt an openSUSE iso to a DVD medum (which is probably why I have tons in the garage). I am very happy to report that your idea worked ! Thank-you very much :)
WHAAT!!?? :-O This is very surprising. May I suggest that you write this in a Bugzilla official report, against "install/update issues"? The idea is to make the people that create the media to be aware of this strange situation. I do have an idea of what it might be, if it is what happened to me the other days in a laptop: it will not boot a hard disk from USB3 (with Windows), but it does from USB2. The explanation I got is that the USB 3 bus got reset on mid boot and lost track. In my case, it turned to boot instead from the internal disk. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)