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
