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Worked fine this morning. Get back home, plug it in, gives me a weird line on startup saying I'm using a battery that isn't original. Whatever. Try to tell it to start anyway.

Everytime I try to start it, I get the Lenovo logo, then it flashes

Reset System

And restarts.

What do?

Worked fine this morning. Get back home, plug it in, gives me a weird line on startup saying I'm using a battery that isn't original. Whatever. Try to tell it to start anyway. Everytime I try to start it, I get the Lenovo logo, then it flashes >Reset System And restarts. What do?

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[–] • 4 pts

First remove the battery and clean the contacts with canned air. Put it back in and try again.

If you still have the issue, your linux distro might no longer be compatible with your hardware. Try booting to linux from a USB from your BIOS and see if it boots. If it does, it means the Linux OS you have installed doesn't work with your hardware. You probably have to get rid of whatever updates installed since the last time you ran it.

[–] • 0 pt

Sounds like this.

It is booting just fine from USB.

it means the Linux OS you have installed doesn't work with your hardware. You probably have to get rid of whatever updates installed since the last time you ran it.

I haven't installed any updates recently, what does this mean? Does this also mean I lose everything on the computer? Fuck, and Thanks for your help

[–] • 2 pts

Unless you have the harddrive encrypted, you should be able to access the files after you boot from the USB by looking for the other drive and looking through the files.

You are going to need someone who is better at Linux than me to help you troubleshoot. Also consider asking an AI.

[–] • 0 pt

Just because you didn't run the update doesn't mean that the laptop didn't do it for you.

[–] • 2 pts

Take the battery out and just use the power cable. Try and start it, if it thing loads up slap the battery back on.

[–] • 1 pt

Starts up with the battery removed and does the same shit. And the battery looks nice, no bloating or anything

[–] • 1 pt

Damn. Might have to reinstall Linux then.

[–] • 2 pts

Maybe didn't drink his warm milk yet? Hope he didn't take the caffeine pills I got rid of

[–] • 0 pt

I got a bottle of beer tonight. I don't drink cow sweat.

[–] • 1 pt

Had a bottle of Malbec. Back to iced tea, before my sleep pills. You don't drink milk?

[–] • 0 pt

Nope. I cook with it, but I can't drink the stuff. Tastes funny to me these days, I guess growing up with raw milk right out of the cow ruined me.

I'm drinking Samuel Smith's Raspberry Ale.

[–] • 1 pt

Have you tried yelling at it?

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Since you say you did nothing to it, could be the BIOS battery is dead and BIOS options got reset.

How old is your ThinkPad? What model? What version of Mint? (Mint is based on Ubuntu, AFAIK)

People having this problem seem to have wrong UEFI BIOS settings. Seems not only ThinkPads are affected.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1404141/ubuntu-22-04-reset-system-bootloop https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/ssy57h/reset_system_then_restart_after_installing_ubuntu/ https://askubuntu.com/questions/1373339/ubuntu-20-04-stuck-in-reset-system-loop

[–] • 1 pt

I had a different laptop with the same issue some years back. I had to buy a new battery (just a generic one from a battery store that was compatible) and it worked. I don't know why the computer craped out when the battery wouldn't hold much of a charge, but here we are.

[–] • 1 pt

If I understand you right, you:

Cannot boot the hard drive, but

Can boot a Live USB.

I assume you used GRUB, sounds like something got fucked up there.

[–] • 1 pt

Sounds like the hd is corrupt ? Probably should test mounting into from the live usb.

[–] • 2 pts

It could certainly be a corrupt drive, or Mint could have silently installed an update that borked GRUB.

Stinkpads are funny things. They're like a Mercedes. They run awesome right up until they don't, then you're calling Germany for parts so you can be laughed at and told it's a 6 month wait if it's even available.

[–] • 0 pt

What's wrong with GRUB? I use it all the time. Sounds like a dead BIOS battery. You get about 3 or so years out of one and then it needs replaced.

[–] • 1 pt

Nothing is wrong with GRUB. However, the symptoms he's describing are one that GRUB will exhibit if something gets messed up in the bootloader options.

That the device will boot from a USB stick seems to indicate that the BIOS battery is good.

[–] • 1 pt

Maybe it's a bad install.

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

Can you access the bios?

Can you boot it from a usb?

Can you boot to a recovery kernel?

NM: just read the thread and saw that it boots from USB so... boot from USB mount partition and repair bootloader?

[–] • 0 pt (edited )
[–] • 1 pt

I'm not very familiar with Chinkpad, but I think they'll crap on you if you have a dead/defective battery.

Try to start it without the battery (if it's easily removable)

[–] • 1 pt

Removed the battery, which is actually the original battery, and looks in decent shape, started it on power, and it just did the same bullshit again. Lenovo screen, system reset.

So it isn't the battery.

Entered bios but I cant figure out which setting to fuck with. Thanks for your help tho. Let me know if you have any other ideas

[–] • 2 pts

Did you have automatic updates enabled?

Try what Bankster suggested (boot from a Live version of your OS from USB).

You can also press/hold SHIFT key down before powering it on (to boot into recovery mode).

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