I've tried twice in a row, now, to install Ubuntu 13.04 (64bit) on a Lenovo ThinkPad X120e netbook via USB stick I created with LiLi. I'm sure I made the stick correctly, I've been doing this on a number of netbooks for the past few days, just did another X120e with 12.04 LTS last night and it worked on the second try.
When I examine the drives from a live boot off the usb stick, the installation went through... I let it erase and use the whole 320GB HDD. I allowed the LVM option (didn't try this with 12), maybe that's an issue? On the netbook, in the BIOS, there is an option "UEFI/Legacy Boot" with the options "Both", "UEFI Only", or "Legacy Only". I chose "UEFI Only". Right on ubuntu's website it says if you want to install with UEFI support get the 64bit version, so I assume that would automatically detect and use (I actually wanted to avoid it doing legacy boot). I think I also set this option on the other X120e netbook with Ubuntu 12, last night. Don't know if it might also be a problem.
Is there any other info I can offer to help someone walk me through troubleshooting this? It looks like all the files installed fine (both times, first time I blew away Windows and the second time it detected Ubuntu on the drive and I removed/reinstalled over it using the automatic options, again, checking LVM, if that matters).
Is there something I can possibly do from the live USB to repair the part of this that makes it bootable via UEFI without running through the entire installation process again? Halp! Thanks!
-Pete
When I examine the drives from a live boot off the usb stick, the installation went through... I let it erase and use the whole 320GB HDD. I allowed the LVM option (didn't try this with 12), maybe that's an issue? On the netbook, in the BIOS, there is an option "UEFI/Legacy Boot" with the options "Both", "UEFI Only", or "Legacy Only". I chose "UEFI Only". Right on ubuntu's website it says if you want to install with UEFI support get the 64bit version, so I assume that would automatically detect and use (I actually wanted to avoid it doing legacy boot). I think I also set this option on the other X120e netbook with Ubuntu 12, last night. Don't know if it might also be a problem.
Is there any other info I can offer to help someone walk me through troubleshooting this? It looks like all the files installed fine (both times, first time I blew away Windows and the second time it detected Ubuntu on the drive and I removed/reinstalled over it using the automatic options, again, checking LVM, if that matters).
Is there something I can possibly do from the live USB to repair the part of this that makes it bootable via UEFI without running through the entire installation process again? Halp! Thanks!
-Pete