The LiveCD boots fine on my A20m and everything-1 works fine running from the LiveCD, including sound. I am able to mount my normal swap and home partitions and use them, as I am doing right now.
The -1 is the installer - it "goes away" after step 4, and never returns. Restarting X (ctrl-alt-backspace) appears to work fine. Refer to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/78298. So I agree there may be a ThinkPad problem, but the problems described in the original report are not ThinkPad universal. -- IBM thinkpads not compatible https://launchpad.net/bugs/76546 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs