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Solved :USB Boot not showing in Thinkpad e14 (programming.dev)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As the title says, my bootable usb is not showing up in the boot menu for my ThinkPad e14 AMD ryzen 5 7530u , gen 5 I think. I have disabled secure boot in the uefi and disabled fast startup in windows. Am I missing anything ? Note: this is my first time using a uefi bios so I don't know if there are any other kinks to mess with .

Edit : I contacted lenovo support for the above issue but even they couldn't find the answer so I guess won't be using linux for this laptop. But since it's for uni I guess it's fine. I will just use WSL

Edit 2: Reinstalled the bios , the usb boots now . Finally slapped opensuse on it and now running it

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (23 children)

I tried that as well the thing is the usb does not show up in the menu

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Weird. What distro is on it, what program did you flash it with, and does it show up in the file manager on another machine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (21 children)

The first was the ventoy one with mbr which I was fine other machines I have used it before with. It had like endeavour os , opensuse, pop os , linux mint windows 11 etc...

But I also reformatted it with windows 11 from meda creation tool as well to check but that also doesnt work which is the most strangest part

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could MBR be your problem somehow? Maybe it needs to be a GPT table instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the top comment you could see I tried reformatting with gpt as well that was also not working

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could you record a video showing the steps you take to try to boot the USB?

Also, maybe pictures of any BIOS settings. I want to see if I can replicate the problem on my laptop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On 'Startup' section, what options are available for 'Boot Mode' ? May want to try using something other than Quick during OS install. Should be able to change it back afterwards for faster boots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Tried that as well no luck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you try Boot mode on anything other than "quick", and then F12 during boot see if that works?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only other option is diagnostics that also doesnt work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry you're going through that bud. I'm flat out of tricks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Same I have already given up on it as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These settings seem exactly the same as mine in all significant ways. Can you show me a picture of Config > USB?

Also, what's the partitioning on your laptop like? Have you actually set up Windows, or have you just left it in OOBE mode for now? On my E16, I just put in a second drive and haven't even touched Windows yet.

Also, when I get time today, I might try replicating your steps with Ventoy to see what happens. Have you just tried straightup flashing an image? (If you haven't, probably try something like OpenSUSE or Debian, which tend to have better EFI support on their installers.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have completed the windows setup with the usual 3 partition and I used Ubuntu as well but booting is not the problem, the bios just doesn't seem to pick up the pendrive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay. What does your Config > USB look like?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Power through usb and the same on battery

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried completely resetting all BIOS settings?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Factory defaults tried that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The last thing I would try is seeing if you can update/revert the firmware on this thing.

If not, then I think I might be out of ideas unless you happen to have a KVM switch that can stream over le intwerbz.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do you reset the firmware ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's something you'll have to Google, but there should be a tool in Windows (you might have to install it from OEM website if you've reinstalled to debloat).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tried that as well but that as well uses usb boot so that is also net detecting

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