New ubuntu install freezes on boot on IBM T21 laptop

[James Knott]

Alex Maynard wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a problem I've been having
> with IBM T21 laptop?
> 
> I installed a new kubuntu disk on my laptop. At first it worked well. But
> about a day later it started going blank halfway through reboot and kept
> doing this.  So essentially I couldn't boot from the hard drive.
> 
> Later I reinstalled ubuntu and the same thing happened.  I used
> to have the same laptop working using libranet but they went out of
> business and my CDs from them are too far out of date to update without
> dependency problems.
> 
> The only thing I can think of to do now is to try a differerent
> distribution (any suggestions?), but I thought I would run this by
> you to see what other suggestions you might have.

SUSE has good ThinkPad support.
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