#Suse linux iso usb install#

This is a fairly normal structure for a BIOS+UEFI-bootable hybrid boot media. Note that the image, as written to the thumb drive, should show up as two partitions: the first is indeed a FAT32 partition with the EFI directory at the root, but the second partition, although marked with type ID 17 ('Hidden HPFS/NTFS' according to Debian 10's fdisk), actually contains the ISO9660 filesystem that has most of the contents of the ISO. The machine also mounts & reads the stick after I boot into the installed Linux, so it's not simply that the USB hardware is broken. PS: I also set the BIOS to boot only from USB, but that just causes the machine to hang on startup with a message that there's no bootable drive found. The only difference is that the one it works with is presumably an IBM BIOS (it's a ThinkPad T60p), the other has an AMI BIOS. I installed on both of those machines using essentially the same procedure, with no more than the usual problems.Īlso, one of those machines is also non-UEFI, and the created USB stick works just fine with it.

#Suse linux iso usb install#

I'm using the current openSUSE-Leap-15.3-NET-x86_64.iso for the install, and have tried creating the install on a couple of different machines, running 15.0 and 15.2.

This doesn't boot - indeed, isn't even recognized - from the target machine.

I want to create a bootable USB install, but everything I try, from the OpenSuSE imagewriter program to a straight dd copy to the thumb drive, creates an EFI directory with BOOT under it. I have an older machine with OpenSuSE installed (12.x, IIRC) which I want to update.