Yeahhh... I've just decided to return it and get a X1 6th gen and just get a supported wacom usb drawing tablet for notes, no OpenBSD is kind of a dealbreaker for me. Also keyboard on it was screwy and didn't work half the time even with Windows so not the best machine. And Legacy mode was also a no-go, as there was no legacy mode and any and all CSM support had been disabled, which is rather frustrating. Also, tried booting through rEFInd, grub, took the hard drive out and installed it on a different machine, none worked sadly. Oddly enough, certain Linux distros seemed to have a similar issue (namely the most recent Gentoo minimal iso) so I'm guessing there was something really weird with the EFI on it. I've got a few old/cheap machines with issues along the same lines, I'll try to figure out what the issue was if I can. I appreciate all y'all's help though!
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:14 AM Kristjan Komloši <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 18:32 +0000, Charlie Burnett wrote: > > Hey, I'm looking to get OpenBSD working in UEFI only mode on newer > > Thinkpad > > X1 devices, because for whatever reason it hangs when loading into > > memory > > without CSM enabled, and some of the X1 devices no longer have a CSM > > option. Does anyone have a fix, or advice on where I would start > > looking if > > I was going to patch it myself? > New Lenovo laptops are getting kinda infamous for their comically bad > UEFI implementations. They hardly boot anything but Windows. You may be > on a blind path there. > > Try disabling secure boot if you haven't done so already, and try > chainloading OpenBSD through a boot manager like rEFInd (I've been > booting OpenBSD with it for a long time, albeit with CSM support). > > -- > Kristjan Komloši > Mail: [email protected] > Tel: +386 31 679 339 > >
