Interesting #tech problem: I have a Thinkpad X230 and a keychain full of USB drives. I’ve been trying to install a new distro, but no matter what ISO (Slack, BSD, etc) I try, it fails to boot from the USB anywhere past the initial disk enumeration.
Whatever bootloader the distro uses will load, but the actual installer never starts. Tried multiple USBs and multiple distros. CSM is enabled. Ideas? #Techsupport #linux #thinkpad
@moz look for a docking station with a cd drive and try to boot off that?
@amsomniac no DVDs to burn, only an external DVDRW drive, and no bootable DVDs laying around
@moz take out the disk and install like, the first step of arch? 😂😂
@amsomniac ...I already have an arch install running on this system. It’s my screw-around experimentation system so I can nuke and reinstall weird distros all day.
I’m trying to figure out why it’s hanging when I boot from USB *now*, since it was working fine beforehand, when I installed arch from USB. I don’t have DVDs to burn to, and there’s about 3 feet of snow outside so I’m not gonna be able to get any.
@amsomniac it was in fact bios gremlins. had to set uefi to legacy only mode... even though the usb drive was getting past the boot loader before freezing. weird.
@moz good luck with your bios gremlins or whatever magick it turns out to be 🙃🙃