General Goal
I've spend about 2 full days on this issue by now. And my goal sounds fairly simple: I want to install Ubuntu on my new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 4th Generation.
Problem
After booting from the USB stick with Ubuntu 14.04 or 15.10 I get a black screen after selecting install from the menu. The only response is a blinking cursor int he upper left corner. Settings like nomodeset etc. do not solve this problem.
Just to check if there is a fundamental error with my hardware I installed Windows 10, which was successful.
Starting the Ubuntu installation with the grub verbose setting, I saw that the installation stops at the line:
intel_pstate: HWP enabled
Searching the internet on this, I stumbled upon a Reddit thread which seems to match my problem.
Does anybody have an idea, how to solve this?
These are my Hardware Specifications:
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 4th Generation
- Processor Clock Speed: 2.6 GHz
- Turbo Boost: 3.4 GHz
- Processor Family: Intel Core i7
- Processor Model: i7-6600U
- CPU Cores: 2
- Cache: 2 × 256 KB L2, 4 MB L3
- Motherboard Chipset: Integrated with CPU
- Intel vPro Technology: yes
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM): yes
- Installed RAM: 16 GB
- Video Card: Intel HD 520