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  1. Bug #1083738
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 1083738

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Constantin Savtchenko (csavtche) wrote : Re: Booting Trouble With Lenovo T520 (NVS 4200M)

Hi Joseph,

  I followed the instructions as you suggested and installed the 3.8-rc5 kernel. I did not see improvement, thus I added the kernel-bug-exists-upstream tag (I may needed to have added the kernel-unable-to-test-upstream.)

  Here's what happened:
     - nomodeset was not a guaranteed a boot like usual on a kernel boot with no compiled nvidia drivers
     - I saw similar situations as before: blank purple screen, getting stuck at the same status message ( something about loading swap )
     - I did manage to boot once (no nvidia drivers) but I was unable to use my mouse or keyboard... I assume this is because there were no drivers installed with the kernel ... was I supposed to do that?

I finally managed to boot back into my newest installed "3.2.0-36-generic #57-Ubuntu" but I had to do it through the recovery menu. The previous kernel (35) didn't have this problem quite so badly... Perhaps it's the 310.19 Nvidia drivers?

Constantin