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
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.
Tried that as well no luck
Can you try Boot mode on anything other than “quick”, and then F12 during boot see if that works?
The only other option is diagnostics that also doesnt work
I’m sorry you’re going through that bud. I’m flat out of tricks.
Same I have already given up on it as well
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.)
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
Okay. What does your Config > USB look like?
Power through usb and the same on battery
Have you tried completely resetting all BIOS settings?
Factory defaults tried that
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.
How do you reset the firmware ?