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Topic: SOS unbootable laptop

Hello all, S.O.S!

New Lenovo laptop without OS. I boot a Slackware (64) ISO from USB.
I use fdisk to create a swap partition (sda3) and the linux partition (sda4). sda2 is the EFI partition and sda1 is listed as type "none" (if I remember well) and has the same size as the Slackware ISO image (strange, I thought, but ah well).
Slackware install goes smoothly. Recovery usb done. Ready to reboot. I remove the usb stick and a lot of errors appear. Uh oh. Restart pc but will not boot.
The recovery usb I made boots ... into kernel panic once, and into a <grub> prompt since.  On my desktop pc I can see it has a filesystem like the one I wanted to install on sda4.
I created a GPARTED usb following "GNU/Linux Method B: Manual". It does boot but freezes in all but failsafe mode (which freezes somewhat later):

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The laptop is a Lenovo v15-IIL.
How do I recover from this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
frans

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Re: SOS unbootable laptop

Update: got pc to boost with slackware iso, once a SD card was inserted.
The small detail I had overlooked was that I bought a laptop without a disc (that's why it seemed like a good deal). The boot medium is assigned sda1 with type "Empty" and an EFI partition is shown as sda2. I kept overwriting the boot medium ....
Apologies,
frans