Bug#590200: cdimage.debian.org: Lenny installer doesn't boot on a Thinkpad X200s laptop.
Package: cdimage.debian.org
Severity: normal
Couldn't boot neither x86 nor amd64 Debian 5.0.5 installer from USB
pen drive on Lenovo Thinkpad X200s laptop. 256 Mb hd-media boot.img
was written to a 4 Gb Transcend flash drive and a netinst CD image was
copied there then. Boot was failing before the loader (syslinux) was
able to print anything.
This was resolved by updating syslinux version: syslinux 4.01 has been
downloaded and the following command was executed in Windows:
syslinux -ma d:
After it the image was able to boot and successfully install the
system (although syslinux couldn't find menu file so it had to be
entered manually in the prompt).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
APT prefers proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34.1-hatta (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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