can not load bios at at fresh boot

The BIOS being accessed is before anything from the disks is loaded.

Hello actionparsnip
In the past to get to the bios I started from a cold start by pressing the ESC key. The bios would then come up.
Now when I do this the grub recovery comes up.
I have tried using the F1 key also.
What I wanted too due was change the order of bios so that USB was first.

Does the system have a make and model?

There seem to be two different issues:

1. If you are unable to enter BIOS setup, then this is not an Ubuntu problem, because BIOS functions are started before any grub or Ubuntu function is started.
When booting your system, you should see some logo from your computer's manufacturer with a text similar to "press ESC for BIOS" or "press F12 for boot settings" or something like that (details depend on make of computer or BIOS). If you see a message from grub, then you already were too late, and should try again. You should experiment with pressing the keys earlier or later, pressing them multiple times, etc. until you successfully can enter BIOS setup.

2. If a boot attempt ends at grub rescue, then something is wrong with the setup of the boot loader and the boot settings. You could check with boot-info, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info

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Sorry to take so long health prob.
This is the boot info from Ubuntu page
I have saved the output from this page
online report-https//paste.ubuntu.com/p/zBxXPQM2Xb/

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What is now your problem?
Does your Ubuntu system boot without errors?

actonparsnip
The system is home brew
MSI 880 MSI mother board
to select bios use F11according to MSI home page
it showed the bios position is USB first but will not read a USB at startup.
This all started after uploading 17.04 to 20.04.
20.04 seemed to work but could not read from USB at startup.
I uploaded 21.04 still cannot use the USB or DVD disc.
The USB or DVD will read on my lap top which is Ubuntu 20.04.

There should be two different function keys:
F11 allows to temporarily select a different boot device, but there should also be another key to press at boot time to enter BIOS configuration dialogue (maybe ESC).
Does that work?
Can you select booting from USB there?
Maybe you should use this dialogue to "reset BIOS to sane defaults" (or whatever the text is in this version)

m-hampl
Just tried the Esc key no luck
yes this is the key I usually use to get the bios.
do not know if this is relevant but it takes an unusually long time to boot since the 17.04 to 20.04 update.

Maybe it's not the ESC but the DEL key etc., see the manual of your motherboard.

How did you update from 17.04 to 20.04? Such update is not supported.

My apologies its not from 17.04 but 16.04 to 20.04 now on 20.10
The Esc key ask for a current password. Will check with MSI about that.

My apologies the upload was from 18.04 to 20.04
Then to 20.10 thinking this might clear software.
I have since run Boot repair this is the result. I see an error with 18.04 release.
How do I go about fixing this or is this not a problem.
Again my apologies.
Thanks

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for cliffm:
Repository: 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/ groovy main'
Description:
Simple tool to repair frequent boot problems.

Website: https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home
More info: https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/boot-repair
Adding repository.
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel.
Adding deb entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-ubuntu-boot-repair-groovy.list
Adding disabled deb-src entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-ubuntu-boot-repair-groovy.list
Adding key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/yannubuntu-ubuntu-boot-repair.gpg with fingerprint 3C48D16124B50277AF10D27F32B18A1260D8DA0B
Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180426) bionic InRelease
Err:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180426) bionic Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Hit:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security InRelease [110 kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates InRelease [115 kB]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy InRelease [17.5 kB]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-backports InRelease [101 kB]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [40.6 kB]
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy/main i386 Packages [1,788 B]
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [103 kB]
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,468 B]
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [600 B]
Get:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 Packages [1,788 B]
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/main i386 Packages [92.1 kB]
Get:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy/main Translation-en [1,596 B]
Get:17 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/main amd64 Packages [253 kB]
Get:18 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/main Translation-en [61.7 kB]
Get:19 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [4,676 B]
Get:20 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/universe i386 Packages [47.4 kB]
Get:21 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/universe amd64 Packages [63.1 kB]
Get:22 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/universe Translation-en [28.4 kB]
Get:23 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [4,552 B]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180426) bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180426) bionic InRelease
Err:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180426) bionic Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy InRelease
Hit:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180426) bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

iffm@Eagle:~$ sudo apt-get install -y boot-info && boot-info
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  boot-sav boot-sav-extra glade2script glade2script-python3 pastebinit
Suggested packages:
  boot-repair cryptsetup dmraid mdadm os-uninstaller gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  boot-info boot-sav boot-sav-extra glade2script glade2script-python3
  pastebinit
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 646 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,120 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 pastebinit all 1.5.1-1 [14.2 kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 glade2script-python3 all 3.2.4~ppa23 [35.9 kB]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 glade2script all 3.2.4~ppa23 [2,204 B]
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 boot-sav all 4ppa125 [443 kB]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 boot-info all 4ppa125 [7,104 B]
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 boot-sav-extra all 4ppa125 [143 kB]
Fetched 646 kB in 3s (208 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package glade2script-python3.
(Reading database ... 257797 files and directories currently installed.)
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Unpacking glade2script-python3 (3.2.4~ppa23) ...
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Unpacking pastebinit (1.5.1-1) ...
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Setting up glade2script (3.2.4~ppa23) ...
Setting up pastebinit (1.5.1-1) ...
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Setting up boot-info (4ppa125) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu4) ...

online report-https//paste.ubuntu.com/p/zBxXPQM2Xb/

Err:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180426) bionic Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs

You still have the DVD that you have used for the initial install listed as a package repository. This leads to that error message when you try doing a package update without having the DVD inserted.

This is easily corrected:

open a terminal window and start the program
software-properties-gtk
remove the tickmark besides the DVD entry https://i.stack.imgur.com/zy7r9.png

Remark: The pastebin link that you provided is not valid.

Thanks Manfred for the info.
Should have known this myself, not thinking straight.

Just to see if the problem of not being able to open the bios could be fixed be upgrading to latest version Ubuntu 21.04. No joy.
Still need to open bios or be able to read USB, or DVD from start up.
This problem happened when up grading from 18.04 LTS to 20.04.1.
Where should I look?
Thanks for all your patience.
Cliff

You are blaming the wrong one.

The feature to enter the BIOS setup dialogue is managed by the BIOS of your mainboard at a moment, when Ubuntu is not running yet.

You have to search the web for instructions how to operate your mainboard and its BIOS.

Remark:

Why is this question filed in the area for libreoffice on Ubuntu?
It has nothing to do with libreoffice.

Sorry did not notice.
I am closing this.
Thanks
Cliff