Can't boot notebook at all anymore

[Colin Law]

On 24 June 2017 at 10:27, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 June 2017 at 09:33, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And this will help - how?
>
>
> 2 possible ways.
>
> [1] It will isolate if this is some OS-specific problem. There are
> machines that just will not play nice with Linux or any non-Windows
> OS. I've owned at least one. (It would run FreeBSD fairly well, oddly,
> but Linux required major coaxing to run at all, and then badly,
> including the very unusual ``acpi=force'' kernel parameter. Haiku,
> AROS, BeOS etc. refused to boot at all.)
>
> [2] It will enable you to install any firmware updates and possibly to
> check for UEFI settings, disable SecureBoot, stuff like that.

I feel the fact that it was working perfectly well and then suddenly
stopped working makes it unlikely that either of these will help.  Not
absolutely impossible but very unlikely.

Colin