[ubuntu-us-mi] Ubuntu on Lenovo x120e

Eric Beversluis ebever at researchintegration.org
Wed Aug 31 20:04:56 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 15:57 -0400, Craig Maloney wrote:
> On 08/31/2011 03:43 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > Hi. I'm having serious trouble getting Ubuntu to run on my new x120e. I
> > was referred to this list by the guys at grlug list.
> ...
> [ELF Magic foo removed]
> 
> > Does anyone have any solutions?
> 
> I ran into the same problems with my x120e. The quick solution would be 
> to reload the machine so it can set up the EFI stuff correctly.
> 
> Here's a thread from the Ubuntu Forums that may be of some help:
> 
> http://ubuntuone.com/6wNy6AMch7owJ9UpDp1Cur
> 
> I did rescue my machine from an upgrade that completely obliterated my 
> EFI setup. It's not fun, but it can be worked around. However, unless 
> you have anything that you desperately need on that laptop, you'd be 
> better off just doing a fresh install.
> 
> hope this helps!
> 
> -- 
Your link doesn't seem to work.

I had just done a fresh install--that's the one that's giving me all the
trouble. Meantime I've reformatted the whole disk with gparted and am
installing again.




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