Trouble setting up Lenovo IdeaCentre K450 usb boot
I am having trouble setting up a Lenovo IdeaCentre K450 to dual boot. I am using a 64-bit 12.04 bootable usb thumb drive (which I have used to boot from many times before). My Bios boot settings are:
CSM -> Enabled Boot Mode ->Auto Boot Priority -> Legacy first Quick Boot -> Enabled and under Primary Boot Sequence , all the USB devices are before the hard drives. When inserting the thumb drive and starting the machine, it starts into Win8, as if nothing has happened. When switching the Boot Priority to UEFI first , the same thing happens. Interestingly, when I disabled Quick Boot the PC would beep on booting, and then proceed to boot in Win8 as normal. Any ideas? thanks! Nikos
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asked Apr 20, 2014 at 0:31
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First, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL LINUX IN BIOS/CSM/LEGACY MODE ON A SYSTEM IN WHICH WINDOWS IS BOOTING IN EFI/UEFI MODE. In other words, setting «CSM» to «Enabled» and «Boot Priority» to «Legacy first» is the wrong thing to do! I realize that a lot of sites advise doing this, but they’re wrong. Using a BIOS/CSM/legacy-mode boot will clear an initial hurdle, but it will put up two or three more down the road, so it creates more problems than it solves. People who advise doing it the hard way don’t realize what they’re doing because they do eventually clear those later hurdles, but they don’t associate them with their initial mistake. (That said, there are some cases where using a BIOS/CSM/legacy-mode installation is the way to go, but they’re the exception, not the rule.)
You should probably disable the «quick boot» option; this option often skips some or all of USB initialization, which renders USB devices unbootable. That’s probably the immediate cause of your problem. Speaking of «quick boot» options, another one is at least as important: There’s an option in Windows called «Fast Startup» or «Hybrid Boot» that you must disable, as described here.
On some computers, you may need to hit a function key (or sometimes Esc) just after powering on the computer in order to get a boot menu that enables you to boot from an external device. Unfortunately, the key you use to get this menu varies from one computer to another.
For more in EFI-mode booting, I recommend you read at least one of the following pages:
- My page on EFI-mode Linux installations
- The Ubuntu community wiki on the same topic
- Adam Williamson’s blog on how EFI works
Lenovo Q180 IdeaCentre — Linux / (U)EFI Boot
P.S. Current HDD partition type is GPT, with the common structure using sda1 with vfat as EFI partition.
asked Nov 19, 2016 at 19:59
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I had this problem and spent over a week trying to solve it. The issue was that it was installing partially to the USB stick. I bought a cd burner/drive them used it instead of the USB stick. It worked perfectly after that simple change in procedure.
answered Mar 17, 2017 at 7:40
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UEFI Secure boot issues with Lenovo IdeaCentre
I am helping a friend setup a new Lenovo IdeaCenter (510A-15IKL 90GV000CUS) and I’m having issues getting it to boot from a flash drive. When I plug in the flash drive (tested good on a Windows 7 PC) it won’t boot, as it doesn’t even activate the monitor I suspect it’s an issue with UEFI and secure boot. It also refuses to boot if I hit F1 or F12 as I power it up. It of course boots fine to the factory Windows 10 install.
I tried Lenovo’s general accessing UEFI/BIOS instructions, but they just led me back to black monitor and glowing power button. I tried a process similar to this: https://www.appgeeker.com/recovery/disable-uefi-secure-boot-in-windows-10.html Opens a new window . After I got to the recovery settings and go to the option to change UEFI settings and hit reboot, it sends me to the black screen (basically never makes it to Phase 2 of those instructions).
Please help, I’ve been working in a Mac shop for 4 years and I think I’m missing something about this new-fangled UEFI and Windows 10! Also, Lenovo support sucks and I’ve given up on them, well not entirely, I’m sorta racing them against the Spiceworks community and I think they’ll lose!