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?
On Friday, October 13, 2023 at 02:50:57 PM EDT, George N. White III <gnwiii@gmail.com> wrote:


On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 11:29 AM Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:
On 10/13/2023 05:23 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> If the Fedora-Everything-38-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM file gives "PGP signed
> message
> or ASCII, look at the contents with less or more.  If you downloaded on
> Windows the
> line endings might be <CR><LF>.

It gave exactly what I showed.  As far as Windows, it's good that you
mentioned that, but I run a Linux only household.

I don't see any post the results of the "file" command, which would tell you
if the CHECKSUM file is a text file that can be viewed to verify the format.
Have you looked at the contents of the file?



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George N. White III