[PLUG] Which linuxquestions.org forum most appropriate?

[King Beowulf]

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.
> 
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> 
>    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