Hello all. I've been trying to install Zorin 18 on an Ideapad Slim 3 for the past day, and I keep running into an issue where the OS installs, but freezes on the boot page on first boot. I have disabled Secure Boot, have repaired Grub, and have run out of ideas. Has anyone run into this issue, and how did you fix it? Am I missing something in the BIOS? I REALLY don't want to capitulate and reinstall Windows....
When you boot, do you have the e option on the grub menu to Edit the grub parameters?
If so, tap e, then arrow key to the part that says quiet splash and add nomodeset
It will look like quiet splash nomodeset
Save and exit and test if it boots. If it does - it is a GPU issue.
If it does not, try instead:
quiet splash acpi=off
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Is Fast Boot in BIOS disabled, too?
If Windows is still installed: Is Fast start-Up in Windows disabled?
Is Your BIOS in UEFI or Legacy Mode?
What Tool did You use to create the Bootstick?
Did You checked the Checksum of the ISO?
Did You have chosen the Option to install with Graphics Drivers?
Did You tried it with an Offline Installation?
- If there is an option for Fast Boot in the Lenovo BIOS, I sure cannot find it. From what I've been able to gather in various searches, FB seems to be something that is enabled through Windows, and not through the BIOS. TBH, I'm really not a huge fan of the over-simplified BIOS that Lenovo puts on their laptops.
- There is no given option for Legacy Mode in the BIOS that I've been able to find
- The checksum checks out
- Graphics Drivers are always something that I enable upon install
- There seems to be an error in the installer that doesn't seem to let you connect to the internet when installing (even though you can go through the process of connecting to wifi in the installer), so the whole process IS offline
Okay, and what Tool did You use to create the Bootstick?
And when You try the Option without them? You can install Nvidia Driver after the Installation, too.
Well, that did it!! nomodeset solved it. Thank you very much.
Now I just need to figure out how to make the change to GRUB permanent, as it reverts upon reboot. This kind of stuff is why I always prefer desktops over laptops. That, and Lenovo because has made a lot of their laptops Windows-centric, their BIOS' are an over-simplified headache.
Just a heads up for anyone else dealing with this issue.... You will need to disable Pluton in the BIOS as well, as that seems to have been adding to the boot issue.
AMD setup here, but thank-you for the suggestion
You do that in the GRUB Config File. Open the Terminal and type:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
to work on the GRUB File. You will see a white Textblock:
Look there in the Line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and add there nomodeset so that it looks like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
and then press ctrl+o to save, Enter to confirm and ctrl+x to exit. Back in the normal Terminal Overview type sudo update-grub to make the Change affect. Don't forget that! Without it, it will not work.
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