Hi, I was wondering if anyone can confirm or answer why this happens please.
I have an Intel BLH6710H desktop board with the latest BIOS update installed. I have a GPT partition layout with Windows 7 64 bit and Fedora 19 X86_64 installed on an SSD drive on two sperate partitions. I have set Fedora to be the first boot entry in the EFI boot manager like this :
efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0002,0004,0001,0000,0005
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,800,32000,1c2cab97-4df9-4777-bd4d-b4f181d8f9a2)File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}...a................
Boot0001* Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00)
Boot0002* Fedora HD(1,800,32000,1c2cab97-4df9-4777-bd4d-b4f181d8f9a2)File(\EFI\fedora\grubx64.efi)
Boot0004* CD/DVD Drive BIOS(3,0,00)P2: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS70 .
Boot0005* UEFI: Corsair Forc ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1f,2)03120a000000ffff0000HD(1,800,32000,1c2cab97-4df9-4777-bd4d-b4f181d8f9a2)File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)
The EFI folder on my EFI partition contains the folders Boot, fedora and Microsoft.
The only way I can get Fedora to boot by default is by renaming the folder Microsoft to 1Microsoft on the EFI partition. I can also hit the F10 key directly after the BIOS screen at boot to manually start Fedora.
I have used Linux for about nine years now so Fedora is my choice of OS. Windows 7 is just a necessary evil due to my gaming habit.
Legacy BIOS mode for the main board is not an option here.
My question is : Why does the BIOS ignore the boot order I have set?