Hi,
I just got a new Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen6. I ordered it with Ubuntu installed, and it came with 20.04.2 But I wanted to do my own fresh install anyways, so I used the startup application (on my other laptop) to make a boot USB with the latest LTS image (20.04.3).
I booted the new laptop, interrupted startup to select the USB drive as the boot disk, and off it went.
Here's the problem: it defaulted to immediately reinstalling everything. I was never given a chance to select the type of installation, or to press a key to interrupt or anything. The install screen said "OEM mode, manufacturers only".
This seems very dangerous. If it hadn't been a new laptop I would have lost everything.
So, two questions:
1) Is this normal? Am I missing something? I know OEM mode exists, but I wouldn't have though the "stock" Ubuntu image downloaded from their site would (file name: ubuntu-20.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso).
2) How can I do a non-OEM install?
Many thanks,
Jean-Luc
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