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!

  • @Pantherina@feddit.deOP
    0•1 year ago

    Thats awesome! But sounds pretty hacky… so I would remove grub and use refind instead?

    Fedora Kinoite is built for Grub afaik, with the deployments and all. Not wanting to destroy that really…

    • @OneCardboardBoxEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I use Fedora Sericea, another Silverblue spin, on my laptop. It wasn’t hard to install rEFInd, and it coexists just fine with GRUB in my experience. rEFInd detects that grub is there and shows it as an option, like any other bootable media.

      The rEFInd documentation at https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind is extensive, but the summary of how to install is

      That was it for me, but the full installation steps are available at https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html if you run into trouble.

      The next time I rebooted, rEFInd popped up and I was back in Fedora with no problem.

      • @Pantherina@feddit.deOP
        1•1 year ago

        Damn thanks! Thats great!

        But for some reason my Bios works now, it shows USB devices, doing a memtest currently, after booting Fedora KDE and having a Win11 usb fail because of missing Lenovo Drivers loool I hate this OS SO MUCH.

    • Max-P
      -1•1 year ago

      You can also chain rEFInd to GRUB if you don’t want to mess with that.