HELP!
Very new to Linux, as in I’ve watched ‘Your Introduction to FOSS and Linux’ package and have followed video 4 to do a hard drive install.
Every seemed to be going well until I removed Installation Media and pressed Enter.
From there I got a blue window with (from memory 4 options) which I hit Continue Reboot (again from memory).
Now my computer - a Lenovo Idea Pad 1 - appears to be cycling through an on-off process.
I can glimpse ‘Reset System’ in the top left corner briefly.
When I hit the Esc button, I get the following screen.
Any help appreciated!
I looked up your Lenovo Idea Pad 1 and here’s how I would begin. Per this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKGOj8SMjv8
I don’t have access to a system like yours, but the basic idea is to ensure that the system can see your boot disk, and subsequently use it.
If your USB stick is plugged in, remove it.
Power the laptop off, if it’s not already there. Holding the power button down for 5-10 seconds should do the trick. Power the laptop up and use your finger like a pogo stick on the F2 key, this will bring you into the BIOS (Basic Input Ouput System) of the system. Use the right arrow key and move to the Boot menu.
In Boot Priority Order ensure that your hard disk is at the top of the list. I can’t tell you exactly how to do that, but it should become obvious as you poke around. It may be named similar to the distribution of Linux you installed.
If you can, take a picture of what’s in the Boot menu & share it here. Once your hard disk is set as boot priority 1, use the up arrow key to get to the list it menu items across the top, right arrow to Exit and select it with the enter key. It SHOULD ask if you want to save and exit or just exit, you want to save the change ( if any ) you made.
Do you know how much virtual memory you computer has? And which district you trying to install?
Thank you for your reply - apologies in the delay to getting back to this, but life had other plans for me…
I have followed your instructions, but the computer is still going through the power on-off cycle and won’t boot.
Attached are photos of bios as I see it.
Shuflo - thank you for your reply. I honestly have no idea where to even start looking for the virtual memory… and have no idea what ‘district’ would refer to… 
I have same computer because is so thin they have a small virtual memory 4gb so the distro I found works the best for me is manjaro xfce, I don’t do heavy task with it.
I suggest use a light distro…
I hope could help
Looking at the screen shots, the 3rd shows “Hard disk Not Installed”. However the boot menu shows Ubuntu & Windows boot managers, so that’s somewhat confusing for me. Are you able to boot Windows?
4 gig of memory (not virtual memory as was previously brought up) is plenty of RAM for Linux. That’s one of the beautiful things about Linux, efficiency.
Narcosis, thank you again for your help. I had no luck myself so took the machine to local technicians and even they couldn’t do it. The reason they gave me was ‘we determined that it could not be installed onto the laptop due to EMMC storage compatibility limitations.’ I’m going to see if I can find a cheap laptop to have another go at it, but until then I’m stuck with MS…
Shuflo, thank you again for your help. I had no luck myself so took the machine to local technicians and even they couldn’t do it. The reason they gave me was ‘we determined that it could not be installed onto the laptop due to EMMC storage compatibility limitations.’ I’m going to see if I can find a cheap laptop to have another go at it, but until then I’m stuck with MS…
I may be able to help if you’d like to send me your system. My son’s laptop had a similar issue which was resolved by removing the EMMC device ( it’s basically a small ‘slower’ ssd ), and installing linux to the laptop’s internal disk ( ssd ).
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Narcosis, thank you so much for your kind offer, but I’m in Australia…
I might ask the local tech guys if they’re able to work around with removing the EMMC device, as you have done. Many thanks again.
You are most welcome. 
Sorry i couldn’t help, here in the US we can buy refurbish computers at amazon for a good price, i bought a lenovo with good 8 GB virtual memory and install a 1TB hard disk and install my favorite distro Debian…
@Tasha - have you resolved the issue?
Hi, Narcosis.
I have located an old laptop of my son’s and successfully installed Mint on it.
Thank you again for your offer, much appreciated.
Good news, glad to hear it!