On 10/14/23 18:18, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/14/2023 02:35 PM, Montague Bestes via users wrote:
The fact that the usb inserted prevents you from 'F*number*' (as in
F12 or whatever) into your BIOS is the most peculiar thing I have
heard. I don't know much about the engineering of these various flash
drives and usb drives, but I was surprised on occasion to see that
some had a password protection. Is it possible that the computer is
seeing something at machine level like a mistakenly set or unset flag
that makes the processor think that the stick is where to find the BIOS?
It only does this on the laptop. It works fine on the desktop.
Ok, because it's fine on the desktop I think it is safe to say that the
media is not the problem.
Since all you get is a grub prompt and it never moves beyound that
wouldn't that indicate the BIOS is pointing to the wrong boot device and
finding nothing there?
Here is a tedious approach but seems the only way forward since having
the device plugged in on boot leaves you unable to get to the BIOS.
Unplug the USB device. Get into the BIOS and select the 1st boot
device. Plug in the device and reboot... nada? Unplug and choose boot
device #2. Rinse and repeat until there are no untried boot devices left.
At that point you might want to consider handing your laptop's drive to
the vendor and paying to have a recent fedora installed onto it.
Good luck. This one has been a real stinker. Please let us know what
it took once you're back online.
Also, this thread is so long I've lost the beginnings of it. What's the
laptop model # ? Maybe we can find BIOS docs for it and help look for
something there.
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