hi.. sort of followed the thred. but. given u have the initial win disk for having a win system. im assuming that would give u serial/model of the box.
you might be able to track down a lenovo supt #for assistance.. to help with the battery issue. and then head back to linux.. good luck On Wed, May 20, 2026, 4:32 PM Robert Moskowitz via users < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 5/19/26 5:39 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 2:57 PM Robert Moskowitz via users > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I powered off, went into setup to see what it said about the battery > >> charging. There were no options for the batteries. > >> > >> On starting the system after leaving setup, I got a message that my > >> external battery is not Lenovo authorized and may not fully charge! > >> > >> Now I have to see about returning this battery and finding an official > >> Lenovo 6-cell battery? > >> > > And I installed a new battery a few years ago, and the first few times > > it would not charge to 100% (stopped well short) and then for no > > obvious reason it started charging full. > > There is something low down in the Bios that controls charging. > Afterall, the batteries charge when power is off and no OS can be running. > > I still have the Win11 drive that came with the unit. > > Is it "safe" to put it in, boot Win11, add the Lenovo app to see if it > can fix the bios for the larger battery (this x260 supports both 3 and 6 > cell external batteries). > > Then put the Fedora drive back in and the UEFI will not get confused? > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new >
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