What are you using to flash the drive, what OS, what DE, what machine are you on and what are you trying to boot to?

am I the only one?

Maybe not but this is for sure the first time that I read about an problem like that. Also never experienced it myself.

What are you using? Try Rufus if you aren't using it to make the bootable media. Its my go to on Windows. Literally the GOAT.

I've found that depending on what distro/OS it is certain methods of burning the ISO don't work correctly, no clue why. Windows needs their official tool, so because of that i use a vm to burn it. I've also had linux distros that couldn't boot when dropping it onto a ventoy drive, and would only work when directly burning it with dd, so it might have something to do with what ISO you're trying to burn and how you're burning it.

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