I have a lenovo Y500 I am trying to install some flavour of GNU/Linux on it. I tried: - Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 - Mint 14 - Arch
I changed the boot mode to "legacy" (no EFI). I wiped out the hard disks as I am not interested in windows 8 The PC contains two hard disks: one 12Gigs SSD one 1T HDD I tried each of the distros above: - on the SSD, using MBR - on the SSD, using GPT - on the HDD, using MBR - on the HDD, using GPT GPT partitioning scheme was done following the advice in the Arch wiki. In all cases, and regardless of setup, I always end up booting in a black screen. If I keep "shift" pressed, all I see is "GRUB loading." (note the single dot) In the case of Arch, I also tried an EFI setup which after lots of pain finally worked, as I was guided by a nice knowledgeable guy on #archlinux But it turns out my graphical card does not in EFI mode. So I am back to point 0. I've been googling for a week, but "GRUB loading." yields absolutely nothing. I can't find a single person who has the same problem as I have. On internet, people have advised me to try nomodeset etc, but I can't access grub to change anything. A good bunch of people have been really nice and trying to be helpful, but in the end, all advice ends up being: - check your memory (which I don't think applies, since the EFI setup worked) - check your distro's MD5 (all checked) - reinstall GRUB (reinstalled a million times) - check that protected boot is off (it is, and EFI is off anyway) - check that your hard disks are/are not in HCI mode (I tried both for every installation trial) People don't seem to understand I can't even get to the GRUB menu. Since I was unable to find the exact string "GRUB loading.", it leads me to think that GRUB is freezing while trying to write "GRUB loading..." But I am new to all this, so I don't really know. I have spent now 5 full days on this, almost not sleeping. It is driving me crazy. I don't even understand how to debug this, since it just stops at stage 0. Any kind of help would be deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance for any pointer you might have _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
