When trying to boot into Ubuntu on a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad t440 I'm getting a bunch of errors, it won't boot and the entire thing takes forever.
This is after already returning one laptop and getting a replacement. On the last one I couldn't even boot into a live USB any more though which I can do this time. So I ran a smart check
Secure boot and rapid boot are turned off in the BIOS.
The windows 10 install I wanted to install in dual boot doesn't run from GRUB (which isn't too bad as I didn't actually plan to use it other than for diagnostics).
Is the drive faulty or am I doing something wrong? Feels weird that the same thing happened on two separate laptops.
Update: Now can suddenly not boot into the live usb anymore even though I changed nothing. The firmware bug error is in the comments.
Update2: live usb boot works again in uefi only mode.
Last update: returned the laptop and going to look for a non refurbished one as it is looking more and more like hardware issues.
