Lenovo x100e won't boot (Network?)

[frioux]

Hey guys,

I just got a lenovo x100e and installed ubuntu on it with the usb-creator. Booting into the installer works fine, but when I actually try to boot it up after install it crashes/freezes. I think it's a kernel panic but I don't even know what logs to look at to see what's going on. I'm pretty sure that it's a network issue because when I booted it at work where I have no wifi it worked until I plugged into a wired socket. After that it immediately froze. Then at home where I have wifi all over the house I can't even got it to the login screen.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

[frioux]

No one? No ideas?

[crunchfighter]

Just tried to install Ubuntu and Fedora on my x100e. It keeps freezing for me too. Did you ever find a solution?

[jerrykenny]

Hard to see whats wrong here . . . .two suggestions

One . . . look into your BIOS and make sure your boot device priority is set to boot into your dvd drive, AND your hard drive . . .

Two . . . If you do ever get the thing to boot successfully, edit (as root) the file /boot/grub/menu.lst look at your kernel entry and delete the word "splash" . . . your next bootup will then display the bootup feedback.

Mad partitioning schemes might make the thing unbootable. Mad BIOS settings can also be a problem eg turning off the Sata controller chip, albeit this is unlikely to be the case on a laptop.

[crunchfighter]

Hard to see whats wrong here . . . .two suggestions

One . . . look into your BIOS and make sure your boot device priority is set to boot into your dvd drive, AND your hard drive . . .

Two . . . If you do ever get the thing to boot successfully, edit (as root) the file /boot/grub/menu.lst look at your kernel entry and delete the word "splash" . . . your next bootup will then display the bootup feedback.

Mad partitioning schemes might make the thing unbootable. Mad BIOS settings can also be a problem eg turning off the Sata controller chip, albeit this is unlikely to be the case on a laptop.

Thanks for the feedback. I found the bug report talking about how this happens to the x100e laptop when booting on battery power. Solution was to interrupt boot and set "radeon.modeset=0" in grub. I can't find the thread that solved it now. If I do, I'll edit the post and link it here.

How do I mark this as "Solved"?

Edit: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ighlight=x100e
http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9210552