fedora/rhel on thinkpad e320 (UEFI??)

[silentaug]

Hi all,

I recently bought a ThinkPad e320 to use as a linux-only machine. As it has no cd/dvd I created a USB boot drive using the usual methods (dd if=path/image_name.iso of=device) and stuck it into the machine. I changed the boot order and also tried booting from the BIOS (ie hit Enter at boot time, then F12 and I choose the USB drive, which it recognizes). But it doesn't work.

I tried setting the UEFI stuff in the BIOS to "Legacy" but still no luck.

Can anyone help me with what I'm missing? I know i can get linux on there somehow (my preference is centos as i wanna learn RHEL) as i found (and posted in) this thread:

(won't let me post url, but it's called "Reload this Page [SOLVED] Installation on a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E320 (F15) "

(sorry for crossposting, i'm a little desperate as i just dropped good money on this thing and didn't expect this whole uefi issues - silly me!).

So, anyone have any pointers? Have I made my boot media wrongly? I was following this:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Re...USB_Media.html

Help me Fedora-wan, you're my only hope!

Thanks in advance,

August

[silentaug]

Thread is http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=277476

sorry i'm new here :-)

[silentaug]

Bummer.

Following here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=1#post1564959

I set the boot flag with gparted and it definitely made a difference. I burnt the OS on there (in this case rhel 6 from an downloaded iso, using: dd if=path/image_name.iso of=device) and set the boot to legacy and it seems to boot off the usb stick.

But ...

It comes up with "missing operating system."

i suppose i'll try a smaller usb .. but i was wondering if you know - if i get a usb dvd drive does that work on these UEFI systems?

UEFI is that hard to boot? It's truly a windows worls :-(

Thanks again for your help ...

August