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)
    1•16 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)
        1•16 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.

        • DotdevOPEnglish
          2•16 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.