Bug 1081624

Summary:	DVD iso written to USB stick lack F1 - F6
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	snwint
Version:	Leap 42.3
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Terje J. Hanssen 2018-02-19 16:28:48 UTC

Not sure where to place this, but start here. Mounting the Leap 42.3 or 15.0 installer image using a DVD disc, contains the lower buttons F1 to F6 at the first page, including the important F2 Language (selection).

I used the SUSE Studio ImageWriter 1.0 to write the DVD iso to a USB sticks.
Booting the USB stick lacks the important lower buttons F1-F6 (and i.e for Leap 15 have a simplified blue background without the logo lamp).

Comment 1 Steffen Winterfeldt 2018-02-19 17:13:35 UTC

The difference you see is between legacy boot (with F-keys) and EFI (without). It's unfortunately technically not possible to do the F-key variant on EFI systems.

If you can't force your BIOS to boot the usb disk via legacy bios you can create an image without EFI support:

mksusecd --create new.iso --no-uefi leap.iso

then it will either work with F-keys - or not at all. :-)

With the EFI variant the only way would be to press 'e' and add 'lang=de_DE' (for example) to the linuxefi line manually.

Or use 'mksusecd --boot "lang=de_DE" ...' to have your favorite language pre-selected.