Description of problem: After installing Mageia 2 on Lenovo X220 tablet. All goes fine and the machine can be used just fine. However if I let the laptop boot without external power source, the boot does not work. From that moment on the laptop hangs on boot (also if on power) even in safe mode. Foto's from the messages that appear are present in the forum: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3946 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Each time after booting without external power. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Mageia 2 on Lenovo X220 tablet 2. Work with Mageia 2, including rebooting without any problems as long as on external power 3. Shut down laptop 4. Remove external power source 5. Boot laptop and see it hang. Hit power button (shutdown is performed). 6. Try to boot again and see it hang whatever you try
Note: I do the installation via USB bootable network install. When the problem first appeared, I tried to recover log files with the Mageia 2 live disk as bootable US device. This does not want to boot either (gives the same type of errors). Linuxmint bootable USB does work without issues.
Created attachment 3249 [details] Syslog of the laptop after crashing boot
Created attachment 3250 [details] dmesg after crashing boot
seems an kernel crash you could try the one in testing aka 3.4.24 iirc also what is your graphic card ?
CC: (none) => tmb
Is there a way that I can create a live USB with that would use that kernel? I now have a perfectly working Linux Mint on my laptop. Installing Mageia overwrites the MBR in a way that I cannot start Linux Mint anymore and I don't know a way how to recover the Linux Mint MBR. Linux Mint uses GRUB2 and it seems that Mageia and Linux Mint don't play nice to each other. If you install one, you can't boot the other anymore (although, you're always still able to boot Windows). I have a spare partition to install Mageia and I would like to test this kernel just to make sure the problem will be resolved for other people, but only if I can do it in a way that does not break my good working Linux Mint install.
Seems like perhaps this grub2 os-prober bug https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Errata#Grub_installation You can try the workaround on the errata above.
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Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD