Lenovo X220 wont boot.

Rodolpho H. O. Eckhardt me at rodolphoeck.com
Wed Mar 7 15:59:38 UTC 2012


On 16:11 Wed 07 Mar     , Peter Ankerstål wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just got a Lenovo X220, a one with a i7-2640M CPU. I can boot from cd 
> and install the OS without any problem, but when im going to boot the 
> system
> for the first time it just stops and give me a menu to choose boot-order 
> (bios). I figured out that this has something to to with the EFI on this 
> machine and
> tried to disable EFI-boot and only use legacy, but I still have the same 
> problem. Does anyone of you have any pointers here?

I had the same issue with a Lenovo T420s, which has EFI booting as an
option, but I neved managed to get it working. I had to install 9.0
"the old way", using mbr instead of GPT, to get it to boot.

-- 
Rodolpho Eckhardt <me at rodolphoeck.com>
http://rodolphoeck.com
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