My stupid Lenovo “Thinkpad” UEFI doesnt have a real F12 devices menu.
It just shows registered UEFI targets that can be booted.
This is pretty catastrophic, somehow I got Fedora and Windows installed, but thats it. If something breaks, I am in trouble. I cant do a memtest86 even though I think my RAM is faulty.
So in Linux, is there a way to add an UEFI entry to boot just any USB stick? Or to boot a specific one, like with Ventoy on it?
Thanks!
It sounds like you got it working-ish.
One thing you might be running into is having hiberboot (AKA fast startup)enabled in windows. Instead of shutting down it hibernates when you choose “shutdown”.
If it is in the hibernated state instead of actually shutdown. You won’t be able to choose a different boot option.
Here is some info on how to turn it off. https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-fast-startup-in-windows-11.1212/
WTF, the BIOS doesn’t let you select the boot-order? Which Thinkpad is this?
Weird, suddenly, after like 20 tries, I can boot any media? Wtf?
Yes I could select the boot order but only for the UEFI entries (Fedora, Linux firmware updater, Windows Boot manager)
Not for plugged in devices. I never saw the name of my NVME for example, now suddenly its there?
I hate this proprietary garbage Bios so much, I cant wait to get a Clevo NV41MZ and flash dasharo on that, then try Heads.
Did you enable CSM? By default you should never see a device to boot from and should only see valid UEFI targets.
Novacustom and 3mdeb do all the work. So if you want to support them, get a machine from them!
I’m a bit late here but when installing grub to a USB drive with a GPT/EFI compatible partitioning, you need to run the following command: “grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --removable” (without the quotes).
When asking help with your laptop, not providing your laptop’s model number is a great way to not get proper help.
Huh? Every ThinkPad I’ve had let’s me boot to a USB drive. Check your bios settings something is off, unless it’s through a company and they have it specifically disabled.
Not that one. Not from a company too. Maybe only using legacy only will solve this.
