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Post subject: Installing onto UEFI 32 bit ThinkPad Tablet 2
 Posted: Mar 05, 2014 - 09:30 AM
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Hi!
I have a Thinkpad Tablet 2 (32 bit Atom/Bay Trail tablet PC), was hoping to install Linux on it. I tried some other distros and failed. Googling seemed to reveal that this UEFI 32-bit is the problem. And according to Lenovo it's a lost case:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-s ... a-p/994207
But some debate on Ubuntu forums and other forums led me to believe it should be possible still. And I stumbled upon a comment thread on Phoronix http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthre ... untu-Linux also saying it should work in Kanotix.
So I decided to try Kanotix for the first time, visited the IRC channel, downloaded the latest nightly: kanotix32-acritox-nightly-140304a-LXDE.iso
Made USB stick as described here:
http://kanotix.acritox.com/content/live-usb-stick
I have disabled UEFI secure boot and I select restart while holding Shift, then select to boot from USB. ... And the USB drive _is_ accessed, but it still just boots into Windows.
And since I haven't found a way to disable the Lenovo logo/get a verbose BIOS screen, I have no idea what's going on ...
Any hints?  |
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Post subject: Installing onto UEFI 32 bit ThinkPad Tablet 2
Posted: Mar 05, 2014 - 09:41 AM
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| Well that seems to be tricky. We could try to Start a 32 bit gummiboot loader as first step. Or can you select EFI shell in your firmware? |
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Post subject: RE: Installing onto UEFI 32 bit ThinkPad Tablet 2
Posted: Mar 05, 2014 - 10:23 AM
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| Haven't found any EFI shell anywhere. Working on trying to get Gummiboot to work. Figured I should get a working USB keyboard, just ordered one. Will be testing more then. |
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Post subject: RE: Installing onto UEFI 32 bit ThinkPad Tablet 2
Posted: Mar 08, 2014 - 10:23 PM
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| Btw, the ISO images since 6th march should use the correct 32 bit uefi executeable name. |
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Post subject: RE: Installing onto UEFI 32 bit ThinkPad Tablet 2
Posted: Mar 10, 2014 - 12:25 PM
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Yep, they now boot into GRUB, and having a working keyboard now, I can select entries as well.
So far I've tried the regular EN entry, the gfxdetect entry and the failsafe entry, and they all just stop after:
Loading Linux ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
Then it seems to hang, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't respond either ... I should probably try to get some more verbosity ... I tried editing the entry, removing quiet and changing splash to nosplash, but it made no difference.
Not sure what to try next ... |
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Post subject: RE: Installing onto UEFI 32 bit ThinkPad Tablet 2
Posted: Mar 12, 2014 - 08:13 PM
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You can remove the splash and quiet entry and add maybe
noefi |
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