Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
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Re: Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
#2It sounds like Lenovo's BIOS is using a RAID mode with the internal SSD that Linux does not understand. Lenovo apparently provides a driver for this RAID mode for Windows 10. If you want to install something else (Linux, Windows 8) you are out of luck until someone produces a driver for that operating system.
Re: Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
#3It sounds like Lenovo's BIOS is using a RAID mode with the internal SSD that Linux does not understand. Lenovo apparently provides a driver for this RAID mode for Windows 10. If you want to install something else (Linux, Windows 8) you are out of luck until someone produces a driver for that operating system.
It is much worse because Lenovo programmed the BIOS to lock the system so if you try to toggle it to AHCI mode with an EFI variable from EFIshell, it immediately sets itself back to RAID mode.
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#4Site is down.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fossbos...
The article looks dangerously uninformed, from a brief skim.
It's based on https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_micro...
I can't find any info on what SSD the Lenovo Yoga uses but if it's anything like the NVMe drive in my Dell XPS, it's just the way the card is set up.
Depending on which kernel your installer is using it won't see the NVMe drive as it simply has no drivers for it.
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#6This was so predictable. And of course, the FSF called it: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot
Re: Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
#7This was so predictable. And of course, the FSF called it: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot
Has anyone actually confirmed this is anything but missing drivers in 3.2.x kernel versions?
Re: Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
#8Site is down. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fossbos... The article looks dangerously uninformed, from a brief skim. It's based on https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_micro... I can't find any info on what SSD the Lenovo Yoga uses but if it's anything like the NVMe drive in my Dell XPS, it's just the way the card is set up. Depending on which kernel your installer is using it…
I dunno, this looks like a smoking gun:
http://i1.wp.com/fossboss.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/B7g...
Re: Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
#9On some recent Lenovo laptops.
I have a recent X260 running Fedora 24 and I'm very happy with it, and with Fedoras support. I use both smartcard and 4G data module with it. Only thing I don't use is the fingerprint reader.
Only sad bit is that I had to disable SecureBoot to run VirtualBox. I would have happily signed the VirtualBox kernel modules if it wasn't for Lenovo missing a small detail in the implementation of the UEFI spec that enables users to write their own MOK.
Re: Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
#10Supposedly Intel's NVMe variant of Rapid Storage Technology is currently unsupported on Linux. I find this puzzling because conventional RST doesn't really do anything that matters to the OS other than changing the AHCI controller's id, so Linux "support" is trivial. But conventional RST relies on the PCIe target being on-board and, with NVMe, the target is the SSD itself, so I don't fully understand what the newer NVMe does.
My laptop won't even POST with RST on, so I can't meaningfully experiment.