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

  • DotdevOPEnglish
    2•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

      • DotdevOPEnglish
        2•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)English
          1•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.

            • youmaynotknow
              1•2 months ago

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

              • DotdevOPEnglish
                2•2 months ago

                The only other option is diagnostics that also doesnt work

                  • DotdevOPEnglish
                    2•2 months ago

                    Same I have already given up on it as well

            • @TechAdminEnglish
              1•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.

            • data1701d (He/Him)English
              1•2 months ago

              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.)

              • DotdevOPEnglish
                1•2 months ago

                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