Ideapad 100s

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Lenovo ideapad 100s is a low-end notebook with ...

Sold at OfficeWorks as Lenovo 100S-11BY

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Installing Linux

The ideapad 100s will only boot from a UEFI-compliant devices, such as a USB storage device. Either hold down the little black button near the power switch when powering on, or press <Func>-F12 during initial start up to get to the boot screen.

It seems, from details gleaned from the web, that it will only boot a 32-bit EFI image.

First try - Debian Jessie

Copy the Jessie 32-bit (i386) netboot image directly to a USB storage device.

Boot ideapad 100s from USB device. Debian installer starts up with splash screen.

Once install option is selected, the keyboard stops working - need to use an external keyboard.

All installed OK, but:

  • integrated keyboard still fails to work (even with upgrade to sid), AND
  • in multi-user mode (normal), some console suspend process keeps putting the screen to sleep, making system all but unusable.

Second try - Ubuntu 15.10

Tried with Ubuntu Wily (15.10) - download 32-bit ISO of desktop installer (ubuntu-15.10-i386).

Need to follow instructions

UEFI

Added the following to grub.cfg: 

search.fs_uuid 17189e32-f1fc-48a7-ba15-9084a1f05dbb root hd0,gpt3
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg

WiFi

WiFi device is the Realtek RTL8723BS which is interfaced via an SDIO channel, and so doesn't appear in lspci or lsusb.

External links

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