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  • Good afternoon, and thank you for posting a reply. I am looking forward to giving this a try but i wanted to report the result of some tinkering first as it may lend to another possible cause. Following the previous result, the access denied response got me thinking so i checked with a few technicians at work and they pointed me to do the following; to which i am doing in real time while posting the result; Commented May 20, 2015 at 18:34
  • ls -l | grep sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 May 20 11:26 sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 May 20 11:26 sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 May 20 11:26 sda2 which i believe means only gives directory access so i ran a sudo chmod 777 to change the bits to world privileges resulting in ls -l | grep sda brwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 8, 0 May 20 11:26 sda brwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 8, 1 May 20 11:26 sda1 brwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 8, 2 May 20 11:26 sda2 Commented May 20, 2015 at 18:37
  • Running you post suggestion renders xzcat ~/Downloads/openSUSE-13.1-ARM-JeOS-raspberrypi.armv7l-1.12.1-Build38.15.raw.xz | sudo dd bs=4M of=/dev/sda; sync 0+77901 records in 0+77901 records out 1019215872 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 247.51 s, 4.1 MB/s Commented May 20, 2015 at 18:48
  • Im going to see if this image will boot. i will back shortly to say ya or na Commented May 20, 2015 at 18:49
  • I'm sad to report that image was not working and the raspberry PI would not boot from it. Is it possible there is some other issue? Commented May 20, 2015 at 18:54