Question Ventoy USB not appearing on the boot manager ?

[UniFan]

Disabled secure boot, enabled USB boot, disabled secure boot support, my laptop is on GPT and so is my USB. Any ideas?

ideapad 3-15ITL6 Laptop - Type 82H8​

 

[TerryLaze]

Did this USB ever boot on any PC?!
Not all companies bother with writing a boot block on the USB sticks so you have to treat an USB like any normal HDD and initialize it by creating a primary bootable partition on it.
There are also tools like easybcd that can write a bootblock on a USB without destroying any data so it's an easy thing toi try to see if that's the issue.

 

[Grobe]

Another question: Does your computer boot on any usb flashed from an ISO bootable image file ?

 

[UniFan]

Did this USB ever boot on any PC?!
Not all companies bother with writing a boot block on the USB sticks so you have to treat an USB like any normal HDD and initialize it by creating a primary bootable partition on it.
There are also tools like easybcd that can write a bootblock on a USB without destroying any data so it's an easy thing toi try to see if that's the issue.

Alright so I actually tested that before going to sleep and it actually booted just fine on my main PC, was able to boot into Debian and Ubuntu just fine. it has to be some issue with the laptop, will probably just flash Debian (smaller so it's quicker) onto the USB and test that out.

 

[UniFan]

Another question: Does your computer boot on any usb flashed from an ISO bootable image file ?

It should, the only reason it's on Windows 10 is because I booted it from a USB because it was on 11 when I got it a few years ago.

 

[TerryLaze]

Alright so I actually tested that before going to sleep and it actually booted just fine on my main PC, was able to boot into Debian and Ubuntu just fine. it has to be some issue with the laptop, will probably just flash Debian (smaller so it's quicker) onto the USB and test that out.

Show a screenshot of your bios on the boot page.
If it only lets you select a type of device to boot from then there is a second menu where you select the sequence of disks, like if it just has ssd as an option then on the second menu it will list all of your ssds so you can select which one to go first.

 

[UniFan]

Show a screenshot of your bios on the boot page.
If it only lets you select a type of device to boot from then there is a second menu where you select the sequence of disks, like if it just has ssd as an option then on the second menu it will list all of your ssds so you can select which one to go first.

 

[TerryLaze]

So it still boots up into the hynix drive right?!
I guess the laptop only boots to efi drives.
Do the other pages have any settings about drives?

 

[UniFan]

So it still boots up into the hynix drive right?!
I guess the laptop only boots to efi drives.
Do the other pages have any settings about drives?

Yeah it still boots fine into the hynix drive. The only thing that comes close to mentioning drives would password locking drives but that's irrelevant here.

 

[UniFan]

Yeah it still boots fine into the hynix drive. The only thing that comes close to mentioning drives would password locking drives but that's irrelevant here.

Big update: I flashed Debian onto the USB and the boot menu and the bios boot order still doesn't recognize it.

 

[UniFan]

Flashing the USB with Rufus instead of BalenaEtcher, scheme is GPT so it *SHOULD* work

 

[UniFan]

Flashing the USB with Rufus instead of BalenaEtcher, scheme is GPT so it *SHOULD* work

update: still doesn't work