Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Freek de Kruijf <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2025 1:06 PM
> To: Mailinglist ARM <[email protected]>
> Subject: Installation of openSUSE Leap 16.0 on a Raspberry Pi
> 
> I have been trying to install Leap 16.0 on a Raspberry Pi 4B. I have a few 
> remarks.
> 
> 1. The image is not usable on a headless system. After starting the image 
> from an
> SD card you need to have a screen and keyboard attached to do some initial
> configuration before access via ssh is possible.

Which image did you use?

> 
> 2. The questions asked on the initialization screens about about root password
> and ssh keys are unclear when you are used to previous installations of 
> Rasberry
> Pi images.
> 2.1 A better directive for the root password would be: Enter the root password
> that will be used to login as root.
> 2.2 A little more explanation on the setting of ssh keys is required. Somthing
> like: To set ssh keys for access to root, we ask you make, from another 
> system a
> connection to <the IP addresses of the Leap 16.0 system>. This enables access 
> to
> public keys on that system which will be stored in the file:
> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys .
> 
> 3. U-boot still takes a lot of time to find a bootable image on the SD card.
> After that, when grub is active the keyboard is not usable to shorten the 
> time to
> start Leap. The 10 seconds delay take much longer than 10 seconds.

IIRC, there was such an issue with previous Leap. But I though it was fixed in 
Tumbleweed, so I would expect to have it fixed for Leap 16.0.

Guillaume

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