End of the line for Lenovo?

Emerson · 09-21-2016, 07:57 PM

Forgot the secureboot ...

Timothy Miller · 09-21-2016, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Emerson

So the fix is easy, just add the new PCI ID to kernel AHCI driver. Any Linux user armed with a text editor can do it.

It's not using the AHCI driver, according to the article, AHCI has been deactivated on these devices (ie - raid only mode). This will actually require the addition of kernel drivers to allow linux to boot these devices from everything I've read about it.

Emerson · 09-21-2016, 09:27 PM

It is still AHCI controller, to avoid loading AHCI drivers they changed the PCI ID. Otherwise it is just regular fakeraid.

Edit: Have you ever tried loading Linux when fakeraid configuration is activated in BIOS? Linux won't see it, it will see bare drives, unless the Linux version you are using auto-detects the fakeraid presence.

Timothy Miller · 09-21-2016, 10:41 PM

I have never used more than 1 drive on a machine since knowing of the ability to do fakeraid to attempt to set up fakeraid. My last raid setup was on a REAL raid scsi controller in the 90's.

Ryanms3030 · 09-22-2016, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Turbocapitalist

Preparing for an upcoming hardware purchase, I ran across this regarding Lenovo possibly locking out non- M$ systems at the hardware level:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2337719&

https://i.imgur.com/B7gMpFL.png

It seems the natural progression from Secure Boot aka Restricted Boot.

Can anyone confirm the problem or provide information?

I would never buy another Lenovo after my most recent experience:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...on-4175587781/

I bought this cheap 100s used on Ebay. Found out there is no way to install Linux after days of messing around and research. OK, there is a very convoluted way to install Linux if you don't need things like sound, touchpad, wifi etc.

I then listed it back on ebay, sold it and went to do the guided factory reset before I shipped it and it would no longer boot into Windows. I made full windows 10 installer on USB but apparently it can't boot off that either. The only way to rescue the system is to use a USB with system restore that you hopefully created before the problem ....I have no such foresight. Luckily it was still under warranty and after an hour on the phone with someone in Asia I was able to ship it to Lenovo's service center (at my cost) and have been without a laptop for 3 weeks now. Maybe not entirely the fault of Lenovo but enough that I would never buy another one of their products after having an older Laptop and Desktop from them