On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 10:13 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > As I've written many times, F12 only gets me to the BIOS if the drive's > not inserted. And, the laptop's only about two, maybe three years old > at most.
Could be a timing issue. Have you tried hammering away at the F12 key as soon as you switch on? Though, anyway, it sounds like it is trying to boot from the USB stick, and you have another problem. There is a chance its trying to do something else (such as BIOS updates from the flash drive). You might want to try booting without the USB drive, go into the BIOS, look at what your boot options are, see that there's nothing special stacked up in the boot order. Even without a USB drive plugged in, the boot priority list ought to show it as a possibility. But considering you said it did boot some other live distro in the shop, it's probably just something about Fedora's booting. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.99.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:19:20 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
