Dell - Internal Use - Confidential Hi stijn, According to our BIOS experts, per industry spec, the OS installer puts the newly created OS entry at the top. Can you confirm that you installed the OS on the disk that became the first boot device? Also are you using a RAID controller? Thanks, Elie
-----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of S1, Vivek Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 4:29 AM To: linux-poweredge-Lists <linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com> Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] uefi boot order changing Dell - Internal Use - Confidential Hello stijn, Would it be possible to share the boot manager screen with current list items in it for understanding more. Thanks Vivek ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:52:24 +0100 From: Stijn De Weirdt <stijn.dewei...@ugent.be> To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] uefi boot order changing Message-ID: <4bd27fd3-7327-7c13-e61d-30868630c...@ugent.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 hi all, we see an issue with the boot order in uefi (now in idrac9 on m640, but we also had this on our m630): it's changing for no real obvious reason, and doing the wrong thing in the end. the problem is that we want to do pxe boot first, then disk boot. however, under certain circumstances, the order changes. in particular, when we reinstall a node, it flips to disk-pxe. we think that it is because the disks gets reinstalled, and uefi sees the new boot disk, and decides that since the old boot disk is no more, it falls back to some default order. however, the right thing to do would be to keep the order the same as much as possible, in particular, the pxe boot should always be kept first. is anyone experiencing similar issues? or knows the correct reason why we are seeing this? or has some tips how to fix this? many thanks, stijn ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge ------------------------------ End of Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 166, Issue 1 *********************************************** _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
