Ubuntu not working on my T510 thinkpad

[nine0]

Hello, I was trying to download Ubuntu on my Thinkpad T510 on a bootable flash drive. But everytime I would get to the start menu on Ubuntu on grub and click try and install it shows me a flashing cursor and it would not boot up Ubuntu. How do I troubleshoot this issue?

[axur-delmeria]

How long did you wait? I have an external SSD with Debian installed. Last month I used it to boot on a Samsung laptop of the same vintage as the T510 (first-generation Core i series) and noticed that it took quite a while to boot, and only displayed a blinking cursor for well over a minute.

[nine0]

How long did you wait? I have an external SSD with Debian installed. Last month I used it to boot on a Samsung laptop of the same vintage as the T510 (first-generation Core i series) and noticed that it took quite a while to boot, and only displayed a blinking cursor for well over a minute.

I waited a few hours but it did not load up. So I let is sit overnight thinking that it needed time to boot up but that did not work too.

[axur-delmeria]

It could be anything at this point, given the age of the T510 (~15 years).

* issues relating to the boot media-- corrupt ISO image, bootable USB disk creation errors (had problems with Debian ISOs and Rufus, must be set to "dd mode" in order to work),

* bad RAM (have encountered boot issues due to bad RAM

* CPU issue (silicon degradation? due to age)

* something else entirely

[Saucey]

Is there options to choose when booting?

Its been long since I installed ubuntu, but some boot menus will need the alternate graphics option (Vesa or whatever), otherwise it won't boot.

What did you use to for the USB boot disk?

I used to use Unetbootin, but Rufus seems to be more reliable.

There's always another distro to use, XFCE is my go when I try a different distro and it just doesn't work out of the box.

[nine0]

Update: I changed the RAM from 16 gigs back to 4 gigs and tried loading Ubuntu and it worked! I guess that the T510 ThinkPad does not accept more than 8 gigs of RAM.

[nine0]

It could be anything at this point, given the age of the T510 (~15 years).

* issues relating to the boot media-- corrupt ISO image, bootable USB disk creation errors (had problems with Debian ISOs and Rufus, must be set to "dd mode" in order to work),

* bad RAM (have encountered boot issues due to bad RAM

* CPU issue (silicon degradation? due to age)

* something else entirely

Thank you for providing suggestions!