On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 07:09:29 -0400 songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote:
> Joe wrote: > ... > > It doesn't help that the BIOS is broken, that it does not honour the > > EFI DefaultBoot, and always rewrites entry 0000 if I change it. > > Fortunately, it does honour NextBoot, or I'd never be able to get it > > booted into buster. But it worked with stretch. I could try > > installing stretch again and take a disc image, but it's a fair bit > > of work when I have no guarantee that whatever is missing will get > > replaced, and I do have a workaround which works. > > after grub has updates i have to run a script which > resets the boot order in uefi. > > > # > # efibootmgr > > BootCurrent: 0001 > Timeout: 1 seconds > BootOrder: 0001,0000,0006,0007,0005 > > > # efibootmgr -o 0,1,5,6,7 > BootCurrent: 0001 > Timeout: 1 seconds > BootOrder: 0000,0001,0005,0006,0007 > Yes, I can do that, but the BIOS rewrites it. It always puts the SATA SSD drive (it also has a hardwired SSD) first in the list, and it always fails to find something bootable on it. EFI booting is working OK, as if I use efibootmgr to set NextBoot, that is honoured, and it boots the correct entry. -- Joe
