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Good day,

I recently bought a X220 thinkpad to use as a work laptop (smaller and tougher than my previous ASUS).
I purchased it from ebay (http://www.ebay.fr/itm/351964588957?_tr ... EBIDX%3AIT) and it came with windows 7 pro installed on it.

I don't have any grudge against windows 7, but I want something lighter and free, that is why I want to install Debian on it.

My issue is that the x220 won't boot from the usb (Sandisk Cruzer Facet of 32GB). The flashdrive is recognized in the BIOS, and I placed it on top of Boot Priority Order.
By pressing F12 I can attempt a boot on it, but after a few seconds I m back on the boot menu.
I tried all the USB port, and various flashdrive as well. The USB boot is also working on my other laptop.
I have set UEFI/Legacy Mode to Both and also put the Boot Mode in Diagnostics instead of Quick
The weird part of it is that there no Secure Boot option available in the BIOS, thus I can't choose to disable it.

The UEFI BIOS version is 8DET73WW (1.43)
The Embedded Controller Version is 8DHT34WW (1.24)

I found this topic with a similar issue (https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/pre-ins ... m-usb/7074), the solution for him was to use an "old HP flashdrive", but after trying different usb flashdrive the boot was still not happening.


Thank you for your help !

What program are you using to create the bootable USB drive?

Hi Axur,
Thank you for your reply.
I created the bootable USB drive with the dd command on ubuntu:

~ dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4M && sync

(I first unmounted USB)

Try building the bootable flash disk using Rufus on WIndows.

Did you select USB HDD in the Boot priority?
Other settings:
UEFI/Legacy Both
Legacy First
Boot mode Quick
Display F12 option

Thank you for your replies RealBlackStuff and axur, it is very appreciated.

@RealBlackStuff Yeah all these options were set up

@ axur : I tried using rufus and it worked ! I can boot with debian now

Have a great day,

Alex