fedora in uefi, once again, changing boot order

asked 2013-07-03 04:17:08 -0600

rudrab
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updated 2013-07-03 05:23:40 -0600

FranciscoD_
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Hi, people must be bored of seeing this topic by now. But I have a bit different problem. I have installed f19 in HP pavilion g6, working well. Only problem is each time I start, I have to press F9 to select between os-boot-manager(pre installed, either HP/MS, not sure, default), and fedora...then only grub2 screen comes.

apparantly there is no way of changing the order of os-boot-manager and fedora. Can I do something? I have secure-boot enabled.

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answered 2013-08-12 14:37:55 -0600

pjones

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There's not much we can do about the 'F9' behaviour - your system firmware is re-writing BootOrder when you do that, and they're doing it in a bad way.

That said, it's possible to map specific keys to specific Boot#### options, though right now we've got no software to do so. EFI supports Key#### variables to map specific keys to specific boot options; somebody must write support to write such variables efibootmgr.

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answered 2013-07-07 02:36:02 -0600

randomuser

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updated 2013-07-07 02:40:27 -0600

Use `efibootmgr` to set your boot order.

Display boot configuration:

# efibootmgr 
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,0006,0003,0004,0007
Boot0000* Fedora
Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0003* CD/DVD Drive 
Boot0004* Hard Drive 
Boot0006* UEFI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C
Boot0007* Network Card

Change boot order:

# efibootmgr -o 0006,0003,0000,0001,0007                                                
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0006,0003,0000,0001,0007
Boot0000* Fedora
Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0003* CD/DVD Drive
Boot0004* Hard Drive
Boot0006* UEFI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C
Boot0007* Network Card

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randomuser, thanks for your help, but it does not look like the solution (I have tried that). The problem is, with F9, I select the "boot device" which is either os-boot-manager or fedora. Now, if I choose os-boot-manager, only windows is there; if I choose fedora, only fedora is there. So, I have two separate device to choose from. it does not look like what we used to have with traditional method, where grub[2] shows all the system available. from fedora, I run os-prober which do put windows entry in the grub2 menu, but booting MS from grub2 is giving error (I dont remember the exact err

rudrab ( 2013-07-08 02:52:18 -0600 )edit

So, you don't need to change the boot order, your problem is that Windows doesn't boot successfully when launched from GRUB? If so, please open a new question.

randomuser ( 2013-07-08 07:45:50 -0600 )edit

no, my problem is "boot device" order. I want Fedora before os-boot-manager after pressing F9. I will try to make a video to make me clear.

rudrab ( 2013-07-08 11:43:08 -0600 )edit

So you want to change the order of boot selections in the motherboard's boot selection menu ? If you can do it anywhere, it would be in the motherboard's setup menus.

randomuser ( 2013-07-11 01:46:53 -0600 )edit

do you have any idea how to reach there?

rudrab ( 2013-07-13 07:19:23 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-10-15 15:38:56 -0600

Charlweed
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updated 2013-10-15 15:40:45 -0600

randomuser SHOULD be right, but there is a bug in some intel motherboard EFI firmware where the board boots from /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi no matter what the data in NVRAM.

A workaround is to rename /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi, then re-run efibootmgr and reconfigure grub. Here is a script to run as root. Before you run it, check to see if your drive is /dev/sda, your partition is 1, and a new boot-entry for Windows should be 6. After you run it, edit /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, and change the Windows chainloader entry from

chainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

to

chainloader /EFI/1Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

Beware Microsoft's boot recovery tool, it will "restore" the original directory, and break things again. Also, I don't see a way to edit anything in /etc/grub.d or /etc/defaults/grub to prevent this fix being overwritten if you reinstall grub, so be careful of that too.

#!/bin/bash
echo cd /boot/efi/EFI
cd /boot/efi/EFI
echo tar -zcvf /boot/efi/EFI/microsoft_efi_boot.tar.gz  /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft
tar -zcvf microsoft_efi_boot.tar.gz   /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft
echo mkdir -p /boot/efi/EFI/1Microsoft
mkdir -p /boot/efi/EFI/1Microsoft/Boot
echo mv /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi /boot/efi/EFI/1Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
mv /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi /boot/efi/EFI/1Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
echo efibootmgr --create --write-signature --label Win7 --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --loader '\EFI\1Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi' --bootnum 6
efibootmgr --create --write-signature --label Win7 --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --loader '\EFI\1Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi' --bootnum 6

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