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

  • @just_another_person
    3•3 months ago

    What’s on the USB? Are you sure it’s properly formatted for EFI booting? Did you make sure it it’s actually working when plugged in on another machine?

    • DotdevOPEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      I tried ventoy with mbr then ventoy with gpt then balenaetcher and Rufus with gpt and then finally a windows usb through the media creation tool. None of them worked. It’s fine with my old laptop but since it was a legacy boot I am not so sure.

        • DotdevOPEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          Can usb ports die if you can transfer files through it ?. The bios is also what I thought so iam lost with that.

          • @just_another_person
            -1•3 months ago

            If you used THESE exact USB ports to create this disk, then you have a BIOS issue. If you’re saying the BIOS doesn’t show a USB device as connected when you go in there to check, then yes, the USB ports are not working.

            From your responses, I’m guessing you’re just not familiar with the technical portions of the BIOS settings, or maybe not about compatible partitioning. But if you’re saying these USB ports work fine when you boot an OS, and then you transfer files, AND you created these disks to be bootable…then this is a YOU problem.

            • DotdevOPEnglish
              1•3 months ago

              Not with a uefi one , a legacy one I never had to care about since mbr would only work. And I created the ventoy mbr on the old laptop, and if that doesn’t show up means it is strange . Though one more thing I found odd was the efi partition does not show up on the file explorer in the new laptop but shows up on the old one.

              • @just_another_person
                1•3 months ago

                I’m seeing plenty of other people out there saying that on this very specific model, disabling secure boot was the fix. Maybe also try a different USB drive.

                • DotdevOPEnglish
                  1•3 months ago

                  Tried with a SanDisk and that also doesnt work

                • data1701d (He/Him)English
                  1•3 months ago

                  I have almost the same model (it’s basically just the 16" version) and I can boot a USB just fine under secure boot.