Re: Lenovo T470 can not boot external M.2 usb enclosure

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 05:13:12PM +0300, intmail01 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use Lenovo T470 laptop and it can not boot an external usb M.2 enclosure.
> When I press the F12 bios option then 'USB HDD' is in the list. When I
> select it , the display come back to the same bios screen and nothing
> happen.
> 
> What happen and what to do to boot with external M.2 drive in this machine ?
> 
> An usb key device boots well with this machine. The configuration is the
> same between the key and the M.2 but this latter doesnt boot.
> 
> I try the M.2 enclosure with a desktop machine and it can boot perfectly.
> 
> I use Linux Slackware 15 OS with grub2 bootloader. The partition is GPT but
> as far as I remember I never install any UEFI options on my systems.
> 
I have a T470 too. :-)

Have you tried mounting the M2 USB when the T470 is already up and
running?  Doing a mount from the command line might produce some
errors which would help you diagnose the problem.

-- 
Chris Green