Make a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro boot to USB?
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I can't make my Yoga 2 Pro boot to USB, and the boot settings in the BIOS aren't very clear or extensive. Anyone know how to make it boot to USB?
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You need to enable Legacy mode in the BIOS, otherwise it's looking for a UEFI partition to boot from, and that rules out pretty much all USB devices.
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My Acer is the same way - I haven't been able to boot from a Linux thumb drive (started a thread about it).
Similar to AJ - I changed to the UEFI setting to legacy - didn't help any. I have yet to manage to boot from USB ... and have set it aside for now.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
You need to enable Legacy mode in the BIOS, otherwise it's looking for a UEFI partition to boot from, and that rules out pretty much all USB devices.
Are you sure? I thought you could boot into UEFI from USB - if you can't how can you install Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 on a ultrabook in UEFI mode?
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One thing for sure, you need to disable Secure Boot - which is probably somewhere else in the setup.
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Here is a tutorial I've used in the past
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html
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@Dashrender said:
One thing for sure, you need to disable Secure Boot - which is probably somewhere else in the setup.
This is the other part I forgot. This is critical.
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@Dashrender said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
You need to enable Legacy mode in the BIOS, otherwise it's looking for a UEFI partition to boot from, and that rules out pretty much all USB devices.
Are you sure? I thought you could boot into UEFI from USB - if you can't how can you install Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 on a ultrabook in UEFI mode?
If you're installing 8, 8.1 or 10, then yes, that's fine. However, if you're installing 7 or Linux, then you need to enable Legacy mode.
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I found instructions for Ubuntu on UEFI as well.
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That's the tool I use to format USB to boot UEFI
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I recently tried to install Windows 8.1 on a Lenovo X1 - but it failed and failed..
I built my USB drive using the Windows 7 cd to USB tool - which has worked a ton in the past.
But now that i think about it probably failed because I didn't have a GPT partition on the USB. sigh.
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@Dashrender said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
You need to enable Legacy mode in the BIOS, otherwise it's looking for a UEFI partition to boot from, and that rules out pretty much all USB devices.
Are you sure? I thought you could boot into UEFI from USB - if you can't how can you install Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 on a ultrabook in UEFI mode?
You can and should install newer versions of windows in UEFI mode (or Linux) , if you don't you'll mess up the install when you switch back.
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@Dashrender said:
One thing for sure, you need to disable Secure Boot - which is probably somewhere else in the setup.
Yep. That's what locks out other devices booting.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Dashrender said:
One thing for sure, you need to disable Secure Boot - which is probably somewhere else in the setup.
Yep. That's what locks out other devices booting.
But this can be solved if the OS you want to install has a cert for UEFI - and Ubuntu does.. so you can install that into the UEFI.
