W530 boot order in BIOS?

[hellosailor]

I'm running Win7/64 and the latest system BIOS, and looking for a way to tell the system to boot from a USB memory stick. But all I see in the BIOS options are a choice of UEFI/legacy devices, and a mention that the boot order might only be accessible if I enter setup in supervisor mode?

There is no supervisor password set, and secure boot has not been enabled.

Whatever happened to simply choosing a selected boot order?? Where'd they move my cheese?

[RealBlackStuff]

Bios -> Config/USB setup/USB UEFI BIOS support -> set to Enabled

[hellosailor]

It is set to "enabled" but there don't seem to be any options for boot sequence (USB, CD, hard drive) anywhere else.

The USB stick was formatted as a DOS bootable "disk" with Rufus, which seems to get nothing but praise, so I expect it is a bootable stick.

But there's no suggestion it isn't, or any visible option to set boot device orders.

[RealBlackStuff]

Welcome to the inscrutable world of UEFI.
From T420/T520/W520/X220 onwards, they got this weirdo BIOS.
If you want to boot from anything out of the ordinary, hit F12 at boot time.
Or read this unappetizing explanation from LeNONO: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500- ... -p/1140957

[hellosailor]

"I did this : Start computer > Press F1 > Thinkpad Setup > Startup > Boot)"
Yes, but that menu does not appear to be present in the current W530 BIOS.

Nor will pressing F12 show any itemized list of devices to choose from.
(Later)
I take that back. YESTERDAY, F12 just gave me one of the other boot menus.
TODAY...indeed it gave me a boot menu, listing all the bootable devices present. The real HDD and the USB stick.

F12 on Monday, not on weekends, and Bob's your uncle?

Best of all, the bootable stick worked, and the software on it worked. DOS ain't dead yet!