Op maandag 17 november 2025 09:26:22 Midden-Europese standaardtijd schreef 
Guillaume Gardet:
> 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?

Image Leap-16.0-Minimal-Image.aarch64-RaspberryPi-Build16.2.raw.xz from
https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/appliances/

> 
> 
> > 
> > 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.

It is not fixed in Tumbleweed either.

Image openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-JoeOS-raspberrypi.aarch64.raw.xz taken from
https://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tumbleweed/appliances/
 
> Guillaume
> 
> 
> > 
> > --
> > fr.gr.
> > 
> > member openSUSE
> > Freek de Kruijf


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