For what it is worth, I run every mainstream Linux except Slackware and Arch on on Thinkpads. I am just not familiar with those distros.
In fact, I use Thinkpads because of their longevity and trouble free Linux experience. Trouble free meaning, no exotic hardware which needs special drivers, just plain, basic and modular HW. Based on my Thinkpad experience, I would suggest to check the checksum of your installation media, try different installation media (perhaps network install), try different external drive if this is the first time you use it, check some live distro such as Knoppix .... to weed out bad USB cables and gain confidence in your laptop. Hope it helps, Tomas On Sun, 2016-10-23 at 08:47 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > There is a Thinkpad mailing list: > > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad > > Thanks, John. I just subscribed. > > > Not much traffic, but I've had good luck there in the past. I'm > > still > > subscribed, and I remember reading just the other day about a > > problem > > similar to yours, although I think it was a very recent model that > > was > > affected. Apparently Lenovo paired with Microsoft to do something > > with the > > disk drives to make them faster. The only fix at this time is to > > install > > the latest Ubuntu, which has modifications so it can be installed. > > Again, > > I don't recall which model was affected, and I have deleted the > > thread. > > There must be a way for distributions other than the Ubuntus to > run on > this hardware. > > Regards, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
