I followed the information here: Thinkpad X13s - Fedora Project Wiki I downloaded the Fedora 43 workstation aarch64 iso, used fedora media writer to write to a USB drive. I get the grub menu. I tried editing the safe boot option and the main option with and w…

This is a good suggestion, thanks!

Fedora 44 beta should work if you use the “Fedora Workstation 44 Live ISO” aarch64 link from: Fedora Workstation | The Fedora Project dd that to a USB stick and when booting add the following to the kernel cmdline to work around various issues: “clk_ignore_unused pd_ignore_unused arm64.nopauth modp…

[image] Hans de Goede: dd that to a USB stick and when booting add the following to the kernel cmdline to work around various issues: “clk_ignore_unused pd_ignore_unused arm64.nopauth modprobe.blacklist=qcom_q6v5_pas”. This modprobe addition is new. I tried what you suggested above and the sy…

According to: 2443936 – Thinkpad x13s (sc8280xp) does not boot with Fedora 44 live-media You need to make sure you keep quiet on the kernel commandline for the boot to work (some sort of display related race condition) which seems not ideal, but is worth a try. The modprobe.blacklist is only neces…

How long did you wait when the screen went black? There is a known issue with recent kernels where some resource necessary for the EFI firmware framebuffer gets turned off, causing the screen to go black. The screen turns back on when the msm kernel-mode-setting driver loads, but that driver is not…

[image] Hans de Goede: How long did you wait when the screen went black? T I just used a 44 beta image, this is my exact menuentry I tried. Please correct me if any of this is wrong. menuentry “Start Fedora-Workstation-Live” --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { linux (…

Your new commandline looks good, it is unfortunate that this does not work on the X13s. I’m afraid I’m out of ideas for the moment.

I’ve recently learned that the X13s likely also needs efi=noruntime on the kernel commandline. Hopefully adding that helps. I’ve just finished writing a set of detailed instructions for installing Fedora 44 on arm64 laptops, which includes the full list of necessary commandline instructions + also …

[image] Hans de Goede: efi=noruntime Thank you for following up on this. I just tried booting F44 Beta 1.2 aarch64 with the following: menuentry “Start Fedora-Workstation-Live” --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { linux ($root)/boot/aarch64/loader/linux quiet rhgb root…

Fedora 43 & 44 Beta aarch64 wont boot on Thinkpad X13s

Ask Fedora

kmilos (Miloš Komarčević) March 13, 2026, 9:03am 2

Perhaps try (and help test and improve) Fedora 44 Beta, or wait for the final release around the corner?

Topic		Replies	Views
Fedora 42 aarch64 wont boot on Thinkpad X13s Ask Fedora aarch64	12	1102	April 28, 2026
Fedora 43 KDE Installation failures on a Thinkpad P1 Gen 6 Ask Fedora kde , nvidia , lenovo	22	515	January 28, 2026
Snapdragon X Elite Fedora 42 System Bring-Up (and looking for collaborators or SIGs)! Ask Fedora arm , arm64 , f42 , snapdragon	47	11054	April 14, 2026
FC 42 kernel 6.16.* stuck in booting (Thinkpad T15g Gen 1) Ask Fedora kde , nvidia , i915	57	874	September 29, 2025
[x1e] FC42 Live CD for Lenovo Yoga Slim7x Ask Fedora	41	1186	April 17, 2026

Fedora 43 & 44 Beta aarch64 wont boot on Thinkpad X13s

Related topics