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This may also be covered elsewhere but I thought I'd add this. I also have a new Lenovo Thinkpad W530. Installed Ubuntu 12.10 Secure Remix over a Windows 7 installation and created a dual boot...

Yes, I've gone through the grub configuration and it all looks reasonable.
I had missed the serial console option when I looked through grub2 docs before, I'll set that up and see if I can get more...

This sounds very much like the (still unsolved) problem I'm having with my Asus Q500A with AMI / Aptio BIOS. Link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12383132

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@dino99: Pretty sure I went through that but I will check. Thanks.

@oldfred: Aptio is either a brand or a module licensed by AMI. I think Dell uses AMI as well. Aptio seems to be...

Thanks, posted here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12382839

I have a new Asus Q500A laptop with 6gb ram, 750gb hard drive and Windows 8 Home preinstalled. CPU is Intel Core i5-3210M

It has the AMI Aptio UEFI bios which allows booting from the regular...

Unfortunately, none of these options worked. The "Ubuntu advanced options" / recovery mode kernel should already boot without switching to graphics mode right away, but it looks like I'm hanging...

Thanks for all the suggestions and help!

I have Intel HD Graphics 4000
nomodeset has no effect
I tried various vesa modes via vga= (824, 792, etc) but they have no effect
The live CD correctly...

OK, there are some further developments here.
After my previous posting I went through boot repair a second time after reinstalling from the 12.10 secure remix.

My gpt0 is a fat16 partition with...

I am still working through this with the Ubuntu 12.10 SecureBoot remix on my ASUS laptop with 750gb hard drive and Windows 8 preinstalled.

One thing I should add is that the ASUS aptio (AMI) bios...

On my 3gs, I get the same problem reported by original poster. Settings / General / About reports version 4.2.1.

Repeated attempts get the same result (Dbus timeout error).

Connecting to my...