Difference between revisions of "Installing Gentoo on a ThinkPad X220"
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== BIOS Update == | == BIOS Update == | ||
Turns out to be very Linux unfriendly. There a ways to boot the .iso image with grub. I tried grub2 with help from syslinux memdisk, reached some kind of bios update menu. But got stuck there. After all I did it by installing Win7 and running the Windows BIOS update tool. | Turns out to be very Linux unfriendly. There a ways to boot the .iso image with grub. I tried grub2 with help from syslinux memdisk, reached some kind of bios update menu. But got stuck there. After all I did it by installing Win7 and running the Windows BIOS update tool. | ||
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| + | == Boot from USB Stick == | ||
| + | Sysresccd (2.2.0), which has a pretty nice script to create a bootable USB-Stick, failed to boot on the X220. Created an bootable usb stick from the gentoo-minimal.iso with unetbootin. Works. | ||
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| + | === Partition the Drive === | ||
| + | parted | ||
| + | mklabel gpt | ||
| + | mkpart primary fat32 1 201 | ||
| + | mkpart primary linux-swap 202 4047 | ||
| + | mkpart pimrary ext2 4048 120GB | ||
Revision as of 10:56, 30 June 2011
Contents
DRAFT! Installationdiary - Gentoo on a X220 DRAFT!
Model Specs
X220 - 4290-W1B
replaced internal HD with SSD Intel SSD 320 Series 120GB, 2.5", SATA II (SSDSA2CW120G310)
BIOS Update
Turns out to be very Linux unfriendly. There a ways to boot the .iso image with grub. I tried grub2 with help from syslinux memdisk, reached some kind of bios update menu. But got stuck there. After all I did it by installing Win7 and running the Windows BIOS update tool.
Boot from USB Stick
Sysresccd (2.2.0), which has a pretty nice script to create a bootable USB-Stick, failed to boot on the X220. Created an bootable usb stick from the gentoo-minimal.iso with unetbootin. Works.
Partition the Drive
parted mklabel gpt mkpart primary fat32 1 201 mkpart primary linux-swap 202 4047 mkpart pimrary ext2 4048 120GB
