Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux - Part 3 - Installing Manjaro
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This is a blog looking at a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux. For this part in the series, we take you through installing Manjaro on the T470.
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Each and every time you press your PC’s power button, the BIOS is the first operation to load your operating system and all of the personal settings that make your computer your own. The T470 displays a very prominent message informing users that pressing Enter interrupts the normal boot process. Pressing Enter emits a beep and takes you to a Startup Interrupt Menu with a variety of options including accessing the BIOS Setup Utility (F1) and to choose a temporary startup device (F12). The latter option lets us boot from, among other things, a USB key.
It’s worth rooting around the BIOS Setup Utility which shows useful information such as the date of the BIOS, and whether or not secure boot has been enabled. On our laptop, UEFI Secure Boot was Off. We didn’t change any of the options in either the Config or Security menu options. By default Virtualization Technology (VT-X) and Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) are disabled in the BIOS. Given that our refurb only has 8GB of RAM, that’s insufficient for virtualization. If we upgrade the RAM in the future, we’ll certainly enable these options.
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