Depending on the age of your hardware, if it is new enough, the "bios" may be set to boot EFI only, i may hesitate to add, that it may have "Secure Boot" enabled too. First check that your distro supports EFI boot, then disable "Secure boot" for sure. you may leave EFI boot as is. Unless your hardware "bios" supports normal boot, in which case select that. There has been a lot of dust around efi booting / normal booting and secure boot locking the system into one , and only one OS ( Windows of course ). Most modern distros do support EFI and BIOS booting, after you disable secure boot. Oh, and despite the scary name, you can safely disable secure boot, the gremlins won't get your data any faster than they would otherwise do.
----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Davis <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 16 May 2019 08:20:53 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [clug-talk] lenovo thinkpad On 2019-05-16 7:34 a.m., Greg King wrote: You may have to tweak BIOS settings. If you have not done any of this before it might be good to get help from someone who is familiar with the process and the issues that arise. Installing any Linux on laptops seems to always involve a few hassles. I don't know if MemX, Geek squad, or Staples tech do this sort of thing but Linux is pretty popular now so they may do it for a fee. I inquired at my local Best buy about Linux. The answer I got was that they did not deal with Linux at all.pat
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