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

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    22 days ago

    did you try and press F1 at the logo screen after power on and adjust settings in the UEFI BIOS Config, Security and Startup menus?

      • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        22 days ago

        You should try enabling the options in:

        • Startup>Boot>Boot device List F12 Option (most important)
        • Config>USB (may be only for charging, but may also help)
        • Security>I/O Port Access>USB Port (may be only for keyboard/mouse, but not clear)

        and disable:

        • Startup>Boot>Boot Order Lock (imporrant)

        then Restart>Exit Saving Changes and press F12 furiously during next boot (as i don’t know when exactly) and select USB.

        source: https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/index.html

          • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            21 days ago

            No idea. The USB should be in there. Can you look onto the USB from Windows? (but don’t change anything on it) Maybe the port doesn’t work properly.

            • Dotdev@programming.devOPEnglish
              2·
              21 days ago

              The usb port is working fine for normal transfers . The bios just doesn’t wanna pick it . I tried with a friends hp laptop it works fine on his.