Hello, So, here it is what happened to me earlier today. Someone from the local LUG sent a message about him wanting to try Tumbleweed. He downloaded the live ISO, but it was not booting. Errors were some "dracut timeouts" and then the usual "problems-problems- problems, give CTRL-D for maintenance etc". He took the ISO from here: https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/tumbleweed I did some checks and tests, but could not help him much. Later, he came back announcing success in booting into the Live OS. Turns out, he used some Windows tool called "Rufus" for putting the ISO on an USB key. And, apparently, this tool has an history of being potentially (I think it depends on the options) doing stuff that makes our ISOs non-bootable. My friend claims to have just used the said tool, with the default set of options. This how he found out about the incompatibility: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/529966-Usb-tumbleweed-does-not-go... Now, I had no idea such tool even existed, and I am not at all suggesting that we change anything in our ISOs because of it. It apparently is a quite famous image writing tool for Windows, and live ISOs of other distros apparently work well with it, but let's live this aside for now. In that forum thread, at some point there is this: "I think the openSUSE Live deserve a better explanation page, check for example the similar page for CentOS which warns users about this problem: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey " That page has a list of tools that can be used for "burning" images that work. The Fedora equivalent page is also pretty nice, and has the same information, right upfront: https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ I think we should have something similar in our one. Regards -- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D http://about.me/dario.faggioli Virtualization Software Engineer SUSE Labs, SUSE https://www.suse.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- <<This happens because _I_ choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)