delta (ThinkPad X280)

Bought on ebay. My first proper ultrabook. This was a nicely specced model, with a good period left on the warranty. I also picked up a nice 1TB portable SSD from the same seller.

Right control key rubber dome seemed upside down. Always clicked on key return. I brought it in to Micro Center to have it serviced under Lenovo's warranty, and they replaced the Keyboard.

At some point I had issue with getting a non-bootable Debian install. For some reason my initramfs lacked the cryptsetup stuff. Here were my notes on fixing it.

1. Boot Debian Live. Install some stuff, decrypt the disk:

sudo apt install cryptsetup lvm2
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p5 nvme0n1p5_crypt
vgscan
vgchange -ay

1. Mount your partitions somewhere. chroot into the root directory. Edit cryptsetup initramfs hooks:

CRYPTSETUP=y

1. Update initramfs (-d delete existing, may be necessary instead of -u)

update-initramfs -u

1. Check your initramfs:

lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-5.x.x-1-amd64 |grep cryptsetup

1. Note during this fix my dual boot windows system wasn't found. You'll have to run update-grub again once the system boots normally.
2. Grub install might fail. My fstab was missing /boot for some reason. Needed to manually add the fstab line. Use the filesystem's UUID (dev/disk/by-uuid…).
3. Unmount /boot/efi
4. Save anything you want in /boot and delete those files (they would be shadowed by the filesystem mounted there otherwise and that might be confusing later).
5. Mount /boot and /boot/efi
6. Either reinstall the kernel packages or copy the files you saved from before back into /boot to ensure correct stuff.
7. Update and install grub

update-grub
grub-install /dev/nvme0n1

I put in a Intel AX210 Wifi 6E card. Windows was a pain and made me get another network adapter to download the driver. Linux just worked. No BIOS whitelist to deal with.

I don't have Wifi 6 access points yet, but it works just as well as the 8265NGW it replaced.