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

  • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have basically the same laptop (it’s an E16, but with the same CPU - it’s just the 16-inch version of your laptop). Make sure you press enter, press F1 to go into BIOS, then go into Security > Secure Boot and enable “Allow Microsoft 3rd Party CA”. That worked like a charm for me.

    If you’re still having problems, try writing down the steps you have taken (down to the key combinations; some pictures would be nice as well). I should have all the same settings menus.

    Don’t worry, though, you’ve made a good choice; I’ve been loving my Thinkpad E16.

        • Dotdev@programming.devOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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

            • Dotdev@programming.devOPEnglish
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              2 months ago

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

              • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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                2 months ago

                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.

                  • TechAdmin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                    2 months ago

                    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.

                  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
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                    2 months ago

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