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Fedora 24 Install on Lenovo X1 Carbon

Jul 18, 2016 · 2 minute read
Category: Fedora

Installing Fedora on my new Lenovo X1 Carbon

I have just bought a nice new Lenovo x1 Carbon laptop. Plenty of power and portability was what I was looking for. It’s also really important that it runs Linux with the minumum of fuss.

Having done a load of research it seemed that Lenovo was the brand of choice for Red Hat developers and so, hopefully, Fedora - which is very closely related to Red Hat - should work fine.

Booting into the LiveCD was hassle free and the installation seemed to go great. But then trying to boot and it just wouldn’t work at all, neither would windows, or even the recovery system. It was bricked.

BIOS

Much fiddling with BIOS later I had the idea of disabling the legacy boot options and forcing UEFI only. I know that Fedora has supported UEFI for some time so this should be no issue. I also had a sneaking (desparately hoping) suspicion that Fedora had detected the fact that the laptop BIOS was preconfigured to support legacy BIOS operating systems and so had not done its UEFI thing. Perhaps a reinstall with only UEFI enabled at the BIOS would fix things.

Success

Turns out the hunch was right, reinstalling with only UEFI enabled in the BIOS seems to have fixed things and so now I’m onto the more fun step of taking my baseline shiny new Fedora 24 and making it my own.