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Title: Amd laptop not booting without charger
Post by: Dash123 on April 08, 2021, 01:45:46 PM

Good day everyone. I am a Partially sighted Linux user. Just started using Linux lite. I have recently installed it on an AMD laptop however, I am running into  booting issues. The system works perfectly if it is plugged into the power supply however, it will boot to a black screen without power. I have searched everywhere,  even found other threads with this problem but have not found a solution

Can someone please help

Title: Re: Amd laptop not booting without charger
Post by: Dash123 on April 09, 2021, 02:06:46 PM

Can any one offer  some assistant? I have been told that this is a bug in the OS
I have also tried updating the AMD drivers and still nothing.

Title: Re: Amd laptop not booting without charger
Post by: Jerry on April 09, 2021, 02:33:27 PM

If you have searched everywhere, I'm sure others have too. Sometimes, threads have no solution, that's the case sometimes for any online forum.

Title: Re: Amd laptop not booting without charger
Post by: firenice03 on April 09, 2021, 04:12:14 PM

@Dash123 What @Jerry says - if no one has an answer --- it may not ----- and it'll be hard for most to give assistance - with minimal details..

Make/Model of laptop -- Dell HP etc ....
We see LL5.4 so assuming the default kernel --- If neither please inform..

Anything added/changed since the original install - has it worked

Could paste the output of..   This will help in deciphering the system info...

Code: [Select]

inxi -Zfx



Perhaps and a very general search yields -- https://www.dell.com/community/Precision-Mobile-Workstations/Precision-7540-will-only-boot-Linux-if-charger-is-connected/m-p/7523968#M3185 (https://www.dell.com/community/Precision-Mobile-Workstations/Precision-7540-will-only-boot-Linux-if-charger-is-connected/m-p/7523968#M3185)
Looks like there maybe be a line to be added to grub ???

I would make a back up (TimeShift) prior to trying...

Title: Re: Amd laptop not booting without charger
Post by: icedigger on April 09, 2021, 09:23:56 PM

System specs would be helpful.

CPU
Chipset
Video Card
etc....

Title: Re: Amd laptop not booting without charger
Post by: Dash123 on April 10, 2021, 03:00:23 AM

 Good morning guys. I am still very new at this. Switched to zorin os. And it works perfectly. I don’t like it and would prefer Linux lite nevertheless zorin will have to do for now

Title: Re: Amd laptop not booting without charger
Post by: trinidad on April 10, 2021, 08:56:45 AM

In case you change your mind see below to understand your issue and how to fix it:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBootParameters
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html

dis_ucode_ldr     = disable the microcode loader at boot

TC

Title: Re: Amd laptop not booting without charger
Post by: Dash123 on April 10, 2021, 12:20:05 PM

Thank you for this. Can you give instructions on h how to do this please!