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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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