Lenovo Ideapad 710S-13IKB 18.1 crashes on grub2 installation

[uzzee]

HI!

Just this week I got a new Ideapad 710S-13IKB and decided to put Serena on it (the same installation media I had for my hp 840 which worked fine by the way).

When booting to the live usb the m.2 ssd didnt show up. Turns out I was missing a BIOS update which I got from Lenovo's support forum https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Yog ... -p/3466850. After setting the boot mode from RAID to AHCI the disk finally showed, and I started the installation.

However, right about the time when the installer was in progress of installing the grub2 package, the installer crashed.

If you want to see any logs please point me to where I can find them and I will put them here!

Thank you!

[uzzee]

UPDATE:

I successfully installed Ubuntu 14.04 on the machine with the same settings (all standard).

After this I tried Mint 18.1 again, but still no luck.

[Cobber]

Sometimes it looks as though it crashed, but actually didn't. If it won't boot up, it might be just a Grub problem which can be fixed with boot repair

Check your BIOS settings too and ensure "fast boot" is turned off, or whatever it is called on your laptop. Hope you get it sorted.

[MintyO]

Then there's the bug that's apparently resurfaced after being fixed for awhile. With efi installations, installation crashes on grub installation when connected to the internet. Solution is to do the installation without internet connection.