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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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[–] • 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).

[–] • 4 pts

OMG, I have no idea what happened, but simply holding shift seems to have solved the problem. It didn't prompt me to go into recovery mode, everything seems normal, all my shit is still there.

Thanks , , and !!!

[–] • 1 pt

simply holding shift seems to have solved the problem.

Nothing has been fixed. It just booted in safe (recovery) mode.

If you reboot without holding the left shift key, it will fail again.

You have to select the previous kernel to make sure it isn't the culprit, as mentioned in my other comment.

[–] • 0 pt

Booting from the USB is fine.

I'll try recovery mode.

If not, does this mean I have to reinstall Linux and I lose everything on the computer?

[–] • 3 pts

If not, does this mean I have to reinstall Linux and I lose everything on the computer?

You can "roll back" to an earlier kernel. If a kernel update, caused some problem, or is suspected of causing an issue you; Reboot, holding left shift key while doing so to invoke the grub menu, then choose "advanced options", There you choose the previous working kernel, and continue boot.

[–] • 1 pt

A hard drive dock is cheap. Buy one.

You can access files from any other computer.

Hard drives fail. It's a fact of life.

[–] • 1 pt

A hard drive dock is cheap.

Essential equipment and far cheaper than taking your computer to a repair place just to have them copy files to another drive/USB stick.