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[UEFI] Freshly installed Ubuntu 11.04 does not boot on Thinkpad X121e - "No operation system found"

Asked by florian k.

I recently tried to install Ubuntu (11.04 x64) on a brand new Thinkpad X121e. During the installation process, no errors occurred. But the notepad refused to boot the new installation. The harddisk is registered as a booting device in the BIOS setup and booting live systems from USB devices (created by UNetbootin) works perfectly.
I tried to to the installation again, but the same problem occurred again.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Is it only Ubuntu or is it a dual boot?

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florian k. (kreitmair) said : 		#2

Just Ubuntu.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/live-usb-sticking-grub-2-video/

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svens (svens) said : 		#4

It's just because you did not install the bootloader on the right location.
You will have to boot again from USB and re-install the grub.

I'll get back with more info.

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florian k. (kreitmair) said : 		#5

I already tried a reinstallation of GRUB. It did not work.
The problem described does not only occur with Ubuntu. I installed Fedora and discovered exactly the same problem: Booting from stick worked fine but the installed system will not boot.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

If you boot to USB you can then boot the first drive from there and the OS should load. You can then run:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade; sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade; sudo update-grub

Then reboot to test

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#7

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1843782
Forst and foremost - without tweaking BIOS you will fail to boot it from a stick. UEFI needs to be disables. .....

Second - even if the installation on 11.04 is successfull, there is a chance you will not be able to boot from the hard drive. Symptoms: Error message stating that there is "No operating system". This was however discussed in other posts.

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