Satellite A300 - My laptop stucks on BIOS when USB is inserted

Hello!
I am experiencing an issue with my Toshiba Satellite A300. I had burned linux on a usb and i tried to boot from usb.So when the laptop opened i inserted the usb and pressed F12. The pc just stuck on Toshiba - Leading Innovation Screen.In the past i was doing the same thing and it was working just fine.
Now,i can't boot from usb.
Can anyone help me please?
Thanks in advance!

Hi
Are you sure that the bootable USB flash drive has been created properly?
Did you test an bootable USB windows environment?
Test this.
Furthermore disable the USB Device Legacy Support in BIOS and test the USB booting once again.
By the way: from my knowledge the USB flash drive needs to be connected before powering up the notebook in order to be able to choose USB bootable device.

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