SYSLINUX is a bootloader designed for use with DOS/FAT formatted bootable floppies. Red Hat/Fedora Core Linux uses SYSLINUX for both the install boot and rescue floppies. In order to install or ...

TIMEOUT 20 DEFAULT linux LABEL linux KERNEL linux APPEND root=/dev/ram0 initrd=fs.gz This tells syslinux to wait for two seconds and then boot the default system. You can interrupt the default boot ...

An aside, but Linux power management support for older Thinkpads is robust. I have an X32 which is from the same era, and I get better battery life with Mint than with XP.