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My new (to me) Thinkpad T61P is refusing to boot my USB with Fedora 42 on it. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm sorry to put a tech support post here, but I don't see a Thinkpad community on here.

(Shocker.)

Details:

Immediately after hitting the Plymouth boot screen (Fedora logo with the spinny but under it) the laptop shuts off completely.

Both batteries I got with it appear to be dead, the HDD boots a broken copy of Windows, I even have a port replicator with it!

I'm not sure if maybe it's my USB, (both laptop and USB are thrifted) or something else.

The only OS I've attempted is Fedora, should I flash a Windows (shudder) install disk and see if that makes a difference?

Thanks, best regards, someone with a Value Village addiction and a Linux obsession.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Not a Linux nerd but just to make sure you checked the basics: did you verify integrity of the OS image? Are you able to verify your USB, memory and HDD all work in isolation?

My first hunch on this is hardware issue, because you get hard shutdowns from what I can gather. I could be wrong though, I only install OS occasionally.

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