Same laptop. Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 beta both will go through their installation routines from desktop livecds just fine, then fail to boot at all from the hard drive.
Linux Mint 12 will install just fine from its livecd, then the installation will boot just fine from the hard drive upon reboot ( everything works as expected ). There is something weird about this Lenovo model's bios and hard disk related to GPT partition table vs ms-dos partition table, and it makes life difficult for the Ubuntu installer to correctly figure out whether to install grub-pc, grub2, or grub-efi, IF anecdotal Googling about this issue is to be believed. IIRC, the Mint installer is just a tweaked version of Ubuntu's. I have to believe that if the Mint folks can hit on the right secret sauce, so to speak, so can the parent distro. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/908203 Title: GRUB2 fails to install on Lenovo IdeaPad V570-1066AJU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/908203/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
