I had boot problems on a Lenovo B50-30. Did not boot into X. Turned out I needed to ugrade the BIOS.
Problems persisted, could only boot through the use of Rescue boot option.
Found a nifty utility called Boot Repair for ubuntu that was new to me and very useful.
It cleaned out the config, deleted grub packages and installed a standard working config - now it boots fine. EDIT: I see the OP had no luck with Boot Repair
I put in a disk with legacy boot config, so had to change from UEFI in the bios after the bios upgrade as it was then (re)set tp UEFI. It came with win 10 on a 500 gb drive. I was going to use this as secondary OS with a cdrom adapter, 120 gb SSD with linux in HD slot. Should work as the windows hd was apparently installed in Legacy mode - otherwise the disk I put in would not have booted.
MX linux or antix is an ok alternative for a not so fast pc. I found another alternative recently, the Russian rpm-based ALT linux.
Originally forked from Mandrake linux.
For an old pc the so called Starter Kit images are best as they offer light desktops and window managers. Also offer systemd free variants that do not have the limitations you see in antix/MX (some software does not work, difficulties created by Debian no offering init choice). ALT has even kept old Gdm working. Slightly faster on old hardware than antix/MX
I see the Lenovo 100S-14IBR has max 2gb RAM. IT people will tell you win 10 needs 16 to run well. So a good candidate for a lightweight linux OS..
Problems persisted, could only boot through the use of Rescue boot option.
Found a nifty utility called Boot Repair for ubuntu that was new to me and very useful.
It cleaned out the config, deleted grub packages and installed a standard working config - now it boots fine. EDIT: I see the OP had no luck with Boot Repair
I put in a disk with legacy boot config, so had to change from UEFI in the bios after the bios upgrade as it was then (re)set tp UEFI. It came with win 10 on a 500 gb drive. I was going to use this as secondary OS with a cdrom adapter, 120 gb SSD with linux in HD slot. Should work as the windows hd was apparently installed in Legacy mode - otherwise the disk I put in would not have booted.
MX linux or antix is an ok alternative for a not so fast pc. I found another alternative recently, the Russian rpm-based ALT linux.
Originally forked from Mandrake linux.
For an old pc the so called Starter Kit images are best as they offer light desktops and window managers. Also offer systemd free variants that do not have the limitations you see in antix/MX (some software does not work, difficulties created by Debian no offering init choice). ALT has even kept old Gdm working. Slightly faster on old hardware than antix/MX
I see the Lenovo 100S-14IBR has max 2gb RAM. IT people will tell you win 10 needs 16 to run well. So a good candidate for a lightweight linux OS..