I’m sorry to put a tech support post here, but I don’t see a Thinkpad community on here.
(Shocker.)
Details:
Immediately after hitting the Plymouth boot screen (Fedora logo with the spinny but under it) the laptop shuts off completely.
Both batteries I got with it appear to be dead, the HDD boots a broken copy of Windows, I even have a port replicator with it!
I’m not sure if maybe it’s my USB, (both laptop and USB are thrifted) or something else.
The only OS I’ve attempted is Fedora, should I flash a Windows (shudder) install disk and see if that makes a difference?
Thanks, best regards, someone with a Value Village addiction and a Linux obsession.
Not a Linux nerd but just to make sure you checked the basics: did you verify integrity of the OS image? Are you able to verify your USB, memory and HDD all work in isolation?
My first hunch on this is hardware issue, because you get hard shutdowns from what I can gather. I could be wrong though, I only install OS occasionally.
All checked but I am going to try a different USB.
We need more info. What model laptop, for starters?
Trying too hard to get a reaction by threatening to load Windows, the hardware hog? Way too low to even be believable.
First thing that comes to mind with a thrifted laptop is that you need to use an older distro compiled for 32bit cpu. But honestly, modern laptops are cheap and the overall experience regardless of OS is that very old hardware is going to look bad by comparison with anything on a store shelf so unless you are familiar with Linux already and committed to rehab old hardware (e.g. for standalone use) then it probably isn’t worth your time.
Are you using libreboot, coreboot or the original OEM bios?
Original in as far as I can tell.
Then you may need to adjust your boot settings
I manage to find the issue, it was my USB drive. The machine is currently humming along with Fedora 42, I’m just now installing Nvidia drivers.
It turned out to be my crappy, no name USB. All OSes boot fine now, even 64-bit. I love when computer shit is simple.
Linux wins the day, viva la Tux!
All hail tux.
