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Booting problem

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/booting-problem.129406/

Anish
Anish Original post #1
Jul 11, 2010 at 7:13 PM
Hi mates,

I have a strange problem with my new lenovo laptop

I recently downloaded a linux mint 9 live cd and booted from it ,it works fine in my desktop computer with p4 processor and also runs fine in another sahara laptop .....

But when i use it to boot from my lenovo sl400c laptop, it seems to boot, but nothing appears... just a blank screen..and the laptop hangs..

Then i restarted my laptop and now a strange thing happens...
The first boot device is automatically changed to network and
My hard drive is set to ACHI which crashes my windows log on..
So i have to change achi to compatible mode and also change the first boot device to anything other than network every time after i try to boot from this linux distro...

Can anyone figure out what is the problem.... my laptop specs are as in my signature...
vignesh
vignesh #2
Jul 15, 2010 at 5:21 PM
It could be some piece of hardware that its not capable of detecting or configuring. Does ubuntu 10.04 boot on your laptop ? Just curious since Mint is based on Ubuntu.