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Matías Guzmán Naranjo
Asked: 2013-09-22 10:50:05 +0800 CST

Can't install ubuntu in lenovo ideapad u430

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I just got my new laptop, a lenovo ideapad u430, but I can't install ubuntu. I'm not a complete noob, I've installed ubuntu in other computers before, but this one is giving me problems. I got it to boot from the usb (13.04) but the first installation screen is barely visible, very, very dark, and nothing seems to work. If I press enter when the orange screen with the small keyboard logo appears, it gives me a menu to either install or use ubuntu, but if I choose any of the options it tries to start and then just freezes and the screen is either black or show some logs of what it was doing. If I try to install the 13.10 I get a black screen after the purple screen with the small keyboard icon on the bottom.

I then tried and managed to install ubuntu 12.04, it seems to work more or less, but when I upgraded the computer boots to a black screen, then only way to make it work is by booting with the 3.2 kernel. I reinstall ubunte 12.04 and as soon as I updated the kernel files same black screen.

I would love to get ubuntu 13.10 working, but I need at least to be able to use the new kernels.

These are the specs of my laptop: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Lenovo-IdeaPad-U430-Touch-Ultrabook.100623.0.html

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To answer my own question. Just hit the brightness button on the laptop till it shows an image.

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  2. I had the same issue as you had. But I wasn't trying to install Ubuntu on the laptop, I was just trying to run it from a USB drive to test it first.

    I tried too many things. Strangely Ubuntu 12.04 with kernel 3.2 works but without wireless :(, while 13.10 ... just a black screen.

    The only way I was able to fix this is while booting up from the live Ubuntu 13.10 USB drive. I pressed F6 and selected from the options menu acpi=off. This enabled me to boot Ubuntu 13.10 perfectly and the wireless was working great.

    I haven't tried to install it yet, and hence it's going to be different for an installed Ubuntu. You'd probably need to set acpi=off to the kernel boot command line in /etc/default/grub. Here's a link on how you might do it. Again I didn't test it.

    http://ubuntuguide.net/turn-off-acpi-ubuntu-grub2

    I hope this helps! Thanks.

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