[SOLVED] Not recognize boot order

chchia

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I had been getting this strange problem since 2 days ago.

i have a linux VM that i had been using for few months and it was ok, i restart it time to time and all was ok.

however, two days ago, when i restart, it goes in to UEFI interactive shell.
i tried to change the boot sequence (in webgui and in bios) and it is not helping, whatever i change it will back to always boot IDE0 CDROM first, then it boot UEFI. my disk either it is sata0 or virtio0 or scsi0 are all same cannot boot.

i deleted the VM and recreate, the first after installation is always ok, but the after reboot it always go to UEFI no matter what configuration i used, although i had been using such configuration for many months.

below is the package version.
i had delete and recreate the VM multiple time with different linux distro. all same result.

thanks in advance for any help and advise.

Code:
proxmox-ve: 6.2-2 (running kernel: 5.4.65-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.2-15 (running version: 6.2-15/48bd51b6)
pve-kernel-5.4: 6.2-7
pve-kernel-helper: 6.2-7
pve-kernel-5.4.65-1-pve: 5.4.65-1
pve-kernel-5.4.60-1-pve: 5.4.60-2
pve-kernel-5.4.34-1-pve: 5.4.34-2
ceph-fuse: 12.2.11+dfsg1-2.1+b1
corosync: 3.0.4-pve1
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ifupdown: 0.8.35+pve1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.16-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.0.5
libpve-access-control: 6.1-3
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-common-perl: 6.2-4
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.1-3
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.0-6
libpve-storage-perl: 6.2-10
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.2-4~pve6+1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve4
lxc-pve: 4.0.3-1
lxcfs: 4.0.3-pve3
novnc-pve: 1.1.0-1
proxmox-backup-client: 1.0.1-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.3-10
pve-cluster: 6.2-1
pve-container: 3.2-2
pve-docs: 6.2-6
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20200531-1
pve-firewall: 4.1-3
pve-firmware: 3.1-3
pve-ha-manager: 3.1-1
pve-i18n: 2.2-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 5.1.0-6
pve-xtermjs: 4.7.0-2
qemu-server: 6.2-20
smartmontools: 7.1-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-2
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.4-pve2
 
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if i get inside bios and select to boot from here, it will then boot correctly

but i cannot change the boot sequence, i tried to make changes for the boot order, however the next restart it always go back to boot DVD, the EFI shell, them harddisk

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update, i never consider to reboot Proxmox host due to i have 4 VM running on.

so today i tried reboot it, and it is now back to normal booting correctly.

i guess this can be close, just never thought that KVM needed such reboot.
 
I m having this problem,
It seems if the boot order is set from gui proxmox it cant be changed within the vm. (or efibootmbr)
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