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I am trying to install Ubuntu on my second machine now from a USB startup disk. The disk works fine as I used it yesterday to install on another machine.

The problem is on this second IBM machine: when I go to BOOT menu (by pressing F12) I do not see boot from USB. The only other option that might be similar is REMOVABLE DEVICE. When I select this option and hit Enter nothing happens. The light on the USB stick doesn't even flash, just my old Windows boots up normally.

I have been attempting to access the BIOS, but the only thing I can seem to get access to is the IBM Setup Utility which seems like the BIOS, but isn't that blue screen like on my other machine. Can anyone please help me figure out how to get this going so I can install Ubuntu again?

Zanna
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ploplinux is a bootable iso that will allow a machine to boot from USB or CDROM if it is not supported.

Sagar Panchal
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user258637
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Sagar Panchal
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i don't have much experience with ibm brand machines, are you able to find anything that represents a boot device order? on one of my pc's the usb stick appears in the list of connected hard drives and i have to move it to the top of the list for my computer to attempt to boot from it.

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I don't know if it's the same for you, but my IBM Thinkpad registers my live USB on the boot menu as a USB hard disk.

ki2ne
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If the BIOS/UEFI setup utility on your computer is not accessible, then it is possible that your computer's firmware is preconfigured to boot from bootable USB drives automatically, and the problem is that the bootable USB drive has not been created correctly, not that the BIOS/UEFI setup utility is not accessible.

Did you create your Ubuntu installation media correctly? There are instructions for creating a bootable Ubuntu live USB at: What is the proper way of creating installation media from an Ubuntu iso?.

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ANSWER: CD was not bootable. WHen burned form windows the disk was not being read as an image. In windows the ISO file is read as a winrar archive which was not readable. I simply burned the CD on my other UBUNTU machine as DISK IMAGE and set the BOOT sequence to boot from CD, and it worked.

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