Solved :USB Boot not showing in Thinkpad e14
Solved :USB Boot not showing in Thinkpad e14
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
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?
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.
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.
Some uefi set ups have usb boot disabled by default. It may be worth having a poke around and seeing if yours does.
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?
Only disabled secure boot and tried enabled secure boot with 3rd party Microsoft ca
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.
I have a similar problem (I think) on a ThinkBook 14.
Honestly I’m not even sure I’m in the right place; since hitting F12, F1, F2 or anything else during startup doesn’t seem to do anything, I found the “Advanced startup” option in the windows settings and hit “restart now”. That got me to a startup menu with a “Use a device” option, but this lists 9 different options all of which just boots up windows. Am I doing this completely wrong?
I suggest a few more things:
Try a different brand usb. Different motherboards sometimes don't support some usb brands. In fact, a Lenovo server I rebuilt refused to boot off certain usbs.
Some motherboards don't initialise boot off some usb ports. Sometimes the additional ports are on another controller and initialise too slow.
Just try a straight working Ubuntu live boot usb to remove any ventoy from equation. Ubuntu has real signed uefi (and no shim) granted by Microsoft. I think that's how it works, uefi is a mess.
Try to start isolating all the different factors, and there could be more. It doesn't necessarily mean anything definitive if it works on another machine.