Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1476759
Fedora does not start after installation on Lenovo P51/P71
Last modified: 2017-08-07 07:27:29 EDT
Description of problem: After installing Fedora 26 via PXE (inside Red Hat), the notebook reboots but does not start Fedora, but behaves like nothing is installed. This also applies to RHEL 7.3 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 26 + RHEL 7.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 26 or RHEL 7.3 on a P51 2. reboot after installation Actual results: After reboot P51 goes back into the boot device selector, and behaves nothing is installed Expected results: Grub with the kernel selection
The bios is fully up to date as well: Package (ID) UEFI BIOS (BIOS ID) ECP (ECP ID) Rev. Issue Date -------------------- ------------------- --------------- ---- ---------- 1.08 (N1UUJ04W) 1.08 (N1UET34W) 1.04 (N1UHT21W) 01 2017/05/31
So, AFAICT: * grub is installed in the MBR * boot partition (ext4) is marked bootable Now, what happens is that the laptop simply fails to boot from the NVME. i.e. the screen stays blank and it then returns to the chooser after a brief period without displaying anything.