Lenovo/BIOS

evert

Since today I have a "ThinkCentre" (Lenovo). I want to install Solus on my Lenovo, so I have to change the way of starting up (to USB). I do not manage to arrange it. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help.

Brucehankins

So there are a couple of options. On my IdeaPad, F10 will get me into BIOS and F12 will pull up my boot sources on start-up. I believe the ThinkCentre is F1 for BIOS menu (before booting into Windows) and F2 I think should get you to your boot selection.

Make sure fastboot and secure boot are turned off, but as long as you can select the USB option, you should be able to boot that source.

evert

Thanks. I will give it a try. Offcourse I found the BIOS, but it doesn't give me the opportunity to startup ONLY from a USB.

brent

I've bought 2 old ThinkCentre desktops and they both adored Solus (plus they were fantastic products). They were early 2000s models and both had a mobo factory-named Dory. No kernel update ever effected them and they performed like Solus was born to be there. It was UEFI I believe.

I have to assume evert you have a newer Lenovo? It does not seem odd to me that a boot menu might have hid itself or changed the way it got called up.........no........what blows my mind is you say that you have BIOS access and there is no USB option in the section where you can manually change the boot order....
that's too weird to me in this foul year 2022...

unless you are saying there is no BIOS section regarding changing manual boot order?

riffer

From the top of my head:

Press F12 during boot. This should present a boot menu listing various options. Use the arrow key to go down to something like "Generic USB Drive" and choose that.

If it doesn't work then there is something else wrong.

noise617

I remember I had some problems with Solus on my three Lenovo machines -- two Thinkpads and a ThinkCenter. The problems apparently started after a certain kernel update. Other Linuxes with the same kernel had the same issues. I ended up switching the machines that were on Bios to UEFI, and updating the firmware on all three.

UEFI is like a more modern type of Bios. Computer usually can run either Bios (AKA legacy mode) or UEFI.

This solved all problems. Maybe this will be of help.

tflovik

You have to plug the USB stick to the computer before you enter BIOS, only then can the computer see it so you can chose to boot from it.

evert

At this moment I am at work. I will give it a try later. Anyway : thanks.