[vbox-dev] VirtualBox ignoring boot order

[Dan Egli]

On 9/22/2020 8:39 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
> By "boot order" do you mean the values in the VBox dialog Settings > System >
> Motherboard?
>
> Those settings seem to have no effect on what EFI uses to boot.  For example,
> with a FreeBSD guest on the hard drive, it will not boot (that's probably
> expected because I have no EFI partition).  If I then mount an EFI-enabled
> FreeBSD CD image, it will boot from the CD even if "Optical" is unchecked in
> the VBox settings.
>
> It looks like you can change the EFI boot order from the EFI firmware by
> hitting the Esc key immediately after powering on the VM.  See
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1783241#p1783241
>
> __Martin

That's lovely. I can try the link listed above. Is there a way to adjust boot order in the VirtualBox settings on an EFI system?

Thanks!
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Dan Egli from my Test Server