<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The steps you list seem appropriate. That you don't see the option suggests this thumb drive was not written in a way that your system recognizes, or isn't written correctly.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Do you have another drive you know has worked on other machines you can try on your Thinkpad?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Do you have another machine (need not be a Thinkpad) you can attempt to boot the 'Gecko' drive on to see if it can read the boot attempt?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If your drive does boot to Linux on another machine, that suggests the drive is written correctly. If a known good drive does or doesn't boot on your Thinkpad, that also gives us information.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bret<br></div><div id="yahoo_quoted_9152222824" class="yahoo_quoted">
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On Sunday, 23 August 2020, 4:32:46 pm AWST, Zed <zed@zed.net.nz> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">You wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 11:47 +1200, Zed wrote:<br clear="none">> > <br clear="none">> > My T450s does not have a DVD/CD drive, so I wrote an ISO for Gecko Linux<br clear="none">> > to bootable USB thumb drive.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> How exactly did you do that please? Commands issued, software used? I have<br clear="none">> no idea what Gecko Linux means in this context.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I wrote to the USB thumbdrive using the tools provided by the Linux Mint<br clear="none">distribution,.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hit button to boot computer<br clear="none">Hit Enter to enter boot options<br clear="none">Hit F12 to bring up option menu<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There is no significance in Gecko, other than that it is the distribution<br clear="none">written to the thumbdrive. I have since tried other distributions, with the<br clear="none">same lack of success, in that when I hit F12 and the boot menu appears<br clear="none">there is no option to boot from a external USB thumbdrive, only from <br clear="none">an externall USB-HDD formatted as a datadrive - and and external USB-DVD<div class="yqt3629490996" id="yqtfd06689"><br clear="none">drive.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Zed<br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Zed<br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad" target="_blank">http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad</a></div></div></div>
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