On 10/23/2016 08:08 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Yesterday I received a used Lenovo ThinkPad x200 and tried to install > Slackware-14.2/x86_64 on it using my external optical drive. > -- > > Choosing to run a full installation I pressed the [Enter] key. No optical > drive spinup, and a message box displayed telling me the installation is > complete and I can reboot the computer. Well, no. Nothing was installed. > > Not having this experience before, I posted a description of the problem > in the Laptops and Notebooks forum on linuxquestions.org. There have been > 168 voyeurs and one response to my question about designating sda1 bootable. > Nothing about why no istallation when the drive is seen by the system and > works as expected until time to install everything. > > Might I see useful responses if I repost to either the Slackware or > ThinkPad fora instead of where it is? I'd like to get this done today as all > my portables are currently down and I need to get them all back in working > order. >
I would stick with the Slackware - Installation subforum on LQ. As for your issue, it could be as simple as an odd setting in the BIOS, or a kernel module not loading at boot. Slackware makes very few changes to the upstream packages. -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
