I would appreciate if anyone can give me explanation for the following problem:
I have ThinkPad T440p with 4-th generation of Intel Core processor and Intel HD graphics. The chipset is QM87, BIOS version 2.55.
I was running Kali on it with no problems at all, until Kali 2018.3 release with kernel 4.17. When tried to install that one, it started crashing. 2018.2 with 4.15 kernel works just fine. I have tried different distros, including Kali 2020.3, Parrot OS 4.10, Ubuntu 20.4 LTS etc and it comes to this: I can use anything up to kernel 4.16, but 4.17 and up I just cant install or even if I manage to install It crashes during boot.
I am not using any VMs on this laptop, this all happens when I try to install it on the laptop itself, it even happens if I try to boot it from a live USB.
Interesting thing is that I have tried to install Kali 2020.3 on MacbookPro 2010 and it work without any problems - also tried to install it on HP ProBook with fifth generation i5 and it works with no problems.
If I install Kali 2018.2 and upgrade - it can work, but that is just not it, if I try to full upgrade, it crashes after full upgrade.
I also want to mention that I did disabled secure boot in BIOS.
I have a Dell m3800 with similar hardware and it runs Fedora 33 just fine.
It is probably something in the firmware. Your BIOS may be putting the wrong memory ranges into ACPI tables or has some SMM code overwriting memory that the kernel thinks it owns, or anything like that.
Have you tried updating to the latest BIOS for it?
And, you donât have it trying to run any kind of Intel ME management software, or one of those anti-theft tools, right? Iâve heard those can cause problems for Linux because it does not provide the hooks that Windows does, that the BIOS is trying to use.
Hi, I did tried UEFI and Legacy, same resault, I think this problem started after some of the few BIOS updates. I suspect after 2.49 version⌠Did not linked the problem with that, but now I can see it is very possible. Unfortunately I cannot downgrade BIOS, since Lenovo disabled that possibility for âsecurity reasonsâ as they said in their documentation.
Could you try CloudReady and let us know if it works? Itâs a fork of Chromium OS built atop the Linux kernel and should run fine on your laptop. You might even like it if you donât like Windows⌠https://guide.neverware.com/supported-devices/#LenovoThinkpadT440p
Some people blame the firmware bug, others that the kernel is also partly to blame ⌠And at the end of the day nobody wants to fix anything âbecause itâs not our problemâ
Try booting with the âacpi=offâ kernel parameter
This will disable ACPI support. If the error is the same with ACPI enabled and disabled, this may not be an ACPI issue.
If âacpi=offâ allows the system to boot, try to isolate the ACPI issue with the following boot parameters
Try booting with "acpi=ht"
This disables all of ACPI except just enough to enable Hyper Threading. If acpi=off works and acpi=ht fails, then the issue is in the ACPI table parsing code itself, or perhaps the SMP code.
Try booting with "pci=noacpi"
This disables ACPI for IRQ routing and PCI scanning.
Try booting with "acpi=noirq"
This disables ACPI for IRQ routing.
Try booting with "pnpacpi=off"
This disables the ACPI component of the Linux Plug and Play code.
Try booting with "noapic"
Disables the IO-APIC for IRQ routing or PCI scanning.
Try booting with "nolapic"
Disables the local APIC.
WORKAROUND
Edit /etc/default/grub and add in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line AFTER quiet word these:
CloudReady does not work as well - it comes to the logo and than restarts. Will try to turn off ACPI now, hopefully some of the fixes provided in this thread will help. Thank You all.
