Framework 13 with new Ultra 7 155H mainboard will not boot

Which Linux distro are you using? - Linux Mint 22.1 MATE

Which release version? - Linux Mint 22.1 MATE

(If rolling release, last date updated?) - N/A

Which kernel are you using? - 6.8.0-51-generic

Which BIOS version are you using? - KFM 30.03.01

Which Framework Laptop 13 model are you using? - ThIs is one of the first Framework 13s sold, but with a new Core Ultra Series 1 - Ultra 7 155H motherboard just installed, with new RAM, NVMe card, WiFi card, and battery as well.

  • After installing the new hardware, I initially booted the upgraded laptop from a thumb-drive containing Linux Mint 22.1 with the MATE display environment.
  • On finishing installation of Linux Mint 22.1, I selected to start using the installation. The laptop rebooted normally and operated normally.
  • I configured the laptop, installed all available software updates, and rebooted again.
  • The GRUB window allowing me to select the kernel to run appeared. After selecting the kernel to run (by selecting the default option), the screen went blank and the laptop stoped responding. All I have been able to do press the power button.
  • Upon pressing the power button, after a 2 or 3 second pause, a display flashes onto the screen, but it goes by too fast for me to read it. Then the screen goes blank again and the laptop powers off.
  • Two or three times, I have rebooted from the thumb drive containing the Linux Mint 22.1 installation software and repeated the OS installation. After completion of the OS installation, I am able to configure the OS, but on reboot, the laptop will not progress past selection of the kernel to boot from, sane as described above.

I’ll appreciate suggestions of what to try next.

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I have exactly the same problem with the same laptop and Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon. Have you found a solution yet?

What is the secure boot setting in the BIOS? Try with it disabled.
Also try a more recent kernel version.
Ubuntu has an oem version. Mate might have similar.

No solution yet. I tried several different ways of configuring the Linux Mint 22.1 partitions. No luck. Then I tried the latest version of Ubuntu. No luck. Next I’ll try Fedora. I’m also looking into installing the latest update to the BIOS, but that will be difficult since the OS will not boot. Perhaps I can do the BIOS update booting from a thumb drive. I’ll let you know.

O.K., progress at last. Both Fedora-KDE-Plasma and Fedora-MATE-Compiz installed and booted on the first try. I did by-the-book installs with both of them. I haven’t used either of them, but that will come with time and experience with them.

Linuxmint 22.0 works perfectly. I suspect that the new power management in 22.1 is causing the problem, but I don’t know for sure.I I have already tested the latest kernel 6.8.0-52 for Linuxmint 22.1, but unfortunately this does not help either.

Thank you for the info re: Linux Mint 22 working. I tried it and it works for me too. I hope the Linux Mint team can find and fix whatever is screwing things up with Linux Mint 22.1.

Linuxmint 22.1 is now working for me. I have done the following:

Before you do this, you should back up your files and the system with Timeshift. But for me the process went through without any problems.
Be patient if you have a black screen for a while during the BIOS update, the update is still running and after a while you will see the progress. Pay attention to the note on the battery charge level, the charge level should not be 100% during the BIOS update.

I hope this report helps you to upgrade your laptop to Linuxmint 22.1.

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Thank you for the potentially very useful news. However, I’ve tried to follow your lead and I can’t make any sense out of the “instructions” I’ve been able to find on how to do a BIOS upgrade. I can’t find a set of step by step instructions anywhere. If you can help me with the following questions, I’d appreciate it:

  1. Where can I download the Insyde firmware tool?
  2. Where can I get the most up to date BIOS update? The download in the Linux section of the Framework 13 web site is a compressed file containing four Windows .exe files. That doesn’t seem right.

Best of all would be that set of step by step instructions, if you have the time and inclination. Thanks for what you’ve already done anyway.

There are 3 methods to upgrade the BIOS.

  1. In Windows, using the provided firmware update tool on the FW web site.
  2. In Linux, using fwupdmgr that comes with Linux. No separate downloads needed.
  3. EFI method, where you put the FW website provided firmware files on a USB stick. You disable “secure boot” and use the “Boot from file” option from the FW BIOS menus.

You don’t have to download anything beforehand. Linuxmint already provides the tool for the bios update. Here is the part of the instructions that is important for you and with which I have carried out the update:

### Linux/LVFS

Firmware updates through LVFS are automatically applied. If you want to update your metadata manually, you can run:

fwupdmgr refresh

fwupdmgr get-updates

fwupdmgr update

Please note that you must update with a charger attached.

LVFS may not update if the battery is 100% charged. LVFS uses the battery status to determine if it is safe to apply updates. However if our battery is at 100% and the charger is off, we set the battery charging status to false. In this case you can discharge your battery a few percent, then plug in AC again and run fwupdmgr update.

You must carry out the process twice.

As I’m sure you knew it would, the process you suggested (below) worked perfectly. I went to my command line terminal, entered the commands, followed the on screen instructions, applied loads of patience, and everything went as it should. Thank you for the help!