On Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 3:05:00 PM UTC-4, Achim Patzner wrote: > I just tried installing Qubes 4.0 on a Lenovo P52 (out of the box, no > firmware updates) and it didn't even boot the distribution media off > USB (after trying several USB ports; there are at least three separate > controllers in this thing). I'm getting exactly 4 lines of mesages > during boot and as it is a 4k display I would have had to take a photo > of it to enlarge whatever was written there (so I can't really tell you > what I saw). > > My first suspicion is the RAM; I ordered it with 128GB to keep it from > even thinking about swapping. Is there a limit on in the current > distribution? > > The firmware has old bugs I encountered on P70 already; I turned off > secure boot and reordered the EFI boot entries resulting in a machine > that is not even displaying the Lenovo banner after turning it on so I > have enough time to think about the errors of my ways (kids, don't try > this at home -- there aren't any replacement mainboards in Europe and a > "repair" will take 6 weeks so you have to force IBM UK into calling it > a late DOA if it happens). > > Does anyone have an idea how to convince it to boot?
Ha ha ha, ouch. I am SOOO jealous of you right now ...but also feel so much pain for you as well. That's a very expensive doorstop. There should be 4 SODIMMS. Remove two to try booting with 64GB of RAM? Can you not get to the BIOS by vigorously tapping F1 after power on, then reset it to factory config? -Brendan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/fac205d2-0704-4d76-aed4-329f886a8f43%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
