A friend of mine recently bought a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 with the following hardware:
- Processor: Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E78100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon™ CPU (3.42 GHz)
- Installed RAM: 32.0 GB (31.6 GB usable)
- System type: 64-bit operating system, ARM-based processor
- Pen and Touch: Touch support with 10 touch points
It is currently running Windows 11. For his studies, he would like to switch to Linux to develop using CLANG++.
Our goal was to install Fedora Workstation on the device, but we failed right at the start when trying to boot the Live USB environment. We flashed the Fedora Workstation 41 Live ISO for ARM® aarch64 systems onto a USB stick and tried to boot it via the BIOS boot menu after restarting. However, the BIOS boot dialog simply displayed an error message stating that “an error occurred.” Unfortunately, I don’t have more specific information than that, as we never even reached the GRUB menu to select “Try Fedora…”.
We tried two different USB sticks and also attempted to boot the Ubuntu variant, but it always ended with the same error.
I personally am not very familiar with the details of the ARM architecture for desktop/laptop environments. Does anyone here have experience with this and can offer some advice? Could a BIOS/firmware update be necessary, or is it something else entirely?
I’m looking forward to your feedback. Thanks in advance!