Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only; all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed. So, I decided to reboot.

Background first: this is a new (3-months-old) PC. It came with two disks, an NVME with Windows 11 pre-installed and an empty second HDD. I DID NOT boot the system in Windows when it arrived. Instead, I popped in a Fedora 39 Live thumbdrive, hit the BIOS hot key, and booted from the thumbdrive, then installed F39.

Again, the system has never, ever, booted into Windows. Which means I have no Bitlocker recovery key, nor any means to access it. Contacting Microsoft won't do any good, since the system was never registered. (I will have to try Dell.)

F39 install was successful, and I've been using the system ever since. Normal grub bootup, offering Fedora kernels, rescue boot, and Windows.

So, getting back to yesterday, I went to reboot the system, and it came up with the blue MS Bitlocker screen, asking for the Bitlocker Recovery key. Have never seen this before.

Then, I noted the "skip this drive" button on the Bitlocker screen, which brought up a second screen, with an alternative devices button. Clicking this reveals a "Fedora" button. Clicking it brings up the normal grub boot screen and away we go into Fedora.

Repeating the reboot gets the same results. I have to click through the Bitlocker screens to get to a Fedora boot.

Not a big, big deal, but this prevents any sort of unattended reboot from being possible.

Suggestions for restoring the normal boot process, please? Thanks.
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