Re: boot manager

On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 09:10:17AM -0400, Laszlo Vagner wrote:
> its been a while since fooling with multiple drives but i have 8 drive bay
> some have freebsd installed on them and an nvme with freebsd installed on it
> (on motherboard) but for the life of me i cannot get the pc to boot from the
> nvme drive unless i unplug the sata drives that have bootable freebsd on
> them .
> 
> i have tried different motherboards and even when selecting F12 to boot off
> the nvme they still boot off the sata drive.
> 
> i tried turning on and off CSM, boot priorities etc, even had a sis9300 card
> in there that i went into its bios and disabled booting fron sata but still
> system boots from sata drive instead of nvme.
> 
> 
> out of curiosity i installed truenas and notice it installed grub2 boot
> manager i assume on the nvme, i remember when freebsd had a menu vcome up
> with F1 xxxx f2 xxxxx etc with its boot manager.
> 
> 
> thing is i dont see that option during install to put a boot manager on the
> nvme, researching i found some comments on putting .efi files in some
> directory or something but im not understanding how that works.
> 
> 
> does anyone have any insight on this?

Hi,

if booting with unplugged sata drive works, I would think it is about the boot order. As you already played with setting it in the BIOS, check what "efibootmgr -v" says. (It has a "BootOrder" entry.) You can change the order with the "-o" option. Maybe this will help.

Good luck,
Daniel