[colug-432] Seeking technical assistance for Mint on Yoga 2 Pro

[Rob Funk]

Eric Floehr wrote:
> This was likely true at one time, but I've personally successfully
> installed the most recent versions of Linux Mint[1], Ubuntu[2], and
> Fedora[3] with Secure Boot enabled. This is on a Lenovo t440s which is a
> cousin of the Yoga 2 Pro.
> 
> So that likely isn't the problem. Whether or not Secure Boot is necessary,
> required, or preferred is a different question.
> 
> [1]
> http://www.zdnet.com/linux-mint-17-hands-on-with-uefi-secure-boot-7000030092/
> [2]
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2028388/two-ubuntu-linux-versions-can-now-work-with-secure-boot.html
> [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Secureboot

Those solutions involve making sure you're using Microsoft-signed code
to boot Linux. That's something that can easily go wrong, and we know
that *something* is going wrong in the boot. Secure Boot may not be
the culprit (we have no error messages), but it's a likely one, and
it's an easy thing to try.