[ltp] Booting from thumbdrive...

[Bret Waldow]

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.
Do you have another drive you know has worked on other machines you can try on your Thinkpad?
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?
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.
Regards,Bret
   On Sunday, 23 August 2020, 4:32:46 pm AWST, Zed <zed at zed.net.nz> wrote:  
 
 You wrote:

> On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 11:47 +1200, Zed wrote:
> > 
> > My T450s does not have a DVD/CD drive, so I wrote an ISO for Gecko Linux
> > to bootable USB thumb drive.
> 
> How exactly did you do that please? Commands issued, software used? I have
> no idea what Gecko Linux means in this context.

I wrote to the USB thumbdrive using the tools provided by the Linux Mint
distribution,.

Hit button to boot computer
Hit Enter to enter boot options
Hit F12 to bring up option menu

There is no significance in Gecko, other than that it is the distribution
written to the thumbdrive.  I have since tried other distributions, with the
same lack of success, in that when I hit F12 and the boot menu  appears
there is no option to boot from a external USB thumbdrive, only from 
an externall USB-HDD  formatted as a datadrive - and and external USB-DVD
drive.

Zed
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