On 03/16/2018 11:53 AM, Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
hi elie,
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?
yes.
the annoying thing is that this also happens during reinstallations.
i can understand that this is the default behaviour, as it makes sense;
but is there a way to always keep pxe boot at the top (ie do what the
admin configured: pxe boot first, disk boot second)?
if not, let me put on my "legacy bios forever" tshirt again...
Where can I get one ;-)
it is really really annoying that this gets reset
Also are you using a RAID controller?
yes and no, we see it in both cases.
Thanks,
Elie
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Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] uefi boot order changing
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Hello stijn,
Would it be possible to share the boot manager screen with current list items
in it for understanding more.
Thanks
Vivek
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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
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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
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