I started a laptop this morning (Thinkpad W530) expecting to boot into TW as normal and the captioned error has appeared with an instruction to Press F1 to enter setup.
Before I do anything else, please help/advise on how to sort this out.
Budge
Further investigation tells me that there is a problem with my efi as evidenced by /sys/firmware/efi/efivars listing.
This directory has many files with names starting:-
dump-type0-9-1-1638473068-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
I believe this might be a Lenovo BIOS problem or a bug somewhere but really have no idea.
Should I delete the files which start with the word dump?
Does anybody recognise this problem and have a solution please?
Solution for me was to boot using legacy bios, delete the dump-* files and then I was able to re-enable uefi boot.
Not happy but also not qualified to debug or post bug report and will hope others will pick this up in due course.
Budge
Hi
You should be fine deleting them, but you need likely need to investigate why… check the journal on reboot and see how many (if any) are recreated.
Hi Malcolm,
I am afraid that horse has bolted and no time to clean the stables now.
If all else fails I shall revert to legacy but deleting the dump files solved the problem for now.
Regards,
Budge
Hi
Where the timestamps current or old? Did any appear after the reboot?
Hi Malcom,
This problem reappeared right in the middle of me trying to sort out Network Manager on my laptops. Have done the same as lasted time and deleted the dump files as reported above. Purpose of posting here is to ask if any other subscriber has reported a similar issue since.
Have checked my other Lenovo laptop, a T530. No sign of any dump files there.
Regards,
Budge.