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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by SmellyGeekBoy on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:34AM (#12546402)
> This was so predictable.

That Linux lacks drivers for something and Microsoft somehow got the blame for it as part of some grand conspiracy? Certainly predictable for /r/linux. I thought HN was better than that.

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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by izacus on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:55AM (#12546516)
Device not showing up on PCIe but probe isn't "a lack of driver". The OS doesn't even have a chance of loading a driver if it can't see the device.
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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by barrkel on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:48AM (#12546478)
Read this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12546250

With a tweaked BIOS (one that permits the AHCI setting), Linux can be installed.

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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by dr_hooo on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @06:23AM (#12546859)
> after manually flashing a modded BIOS by soldering chip programming hardware

I would classify this as a hack rather than "can be installed"

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