Changing X240 Boot Order in BIOS

This page documents how to use WMI to change certain aspects of the Lenovo BIOS.
Of interest to me is changing the BootMode from BIOS TO UEFI, then changing the BootPriority to UEFI First.
Unfortunatey, newer laptops (X240, T540p, Carbon 20A8, Helix, etc) - the laptops deployed in our organization - do not have the ability to have their BIOS changed via WMI, at least according to bdw_deploy_01.pdf on the page linked earlier.
Am I just misreading this, or can I now not make BIOS-UEFI changes via WMI for these laptops? If so, this is very unfortunate.
Thank you

This particular setting is not allowed to be scripted because if you deployed a machine with an OS that does not support UEFI and then you switched the setting to boot UEFI the machine would not be able to boot. The other BIOS settings support by the WMI interface can still be changed by WMI when the system has been deployed as UEFI boot.

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We're tryng to change the boot order in BIOS to recognise the CD drive ready for the windows disk. However, there seems to be no option to change the BIOS boot order and yes we've tried the Toshiba route which suggests pressing C during boot up and F12 to select the drive during boot up, neither of which work.
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Hi karl1966,
Have you checked if the CD/DVD drive is recognized properly in BIOS?
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T520 - Changing Boot order in BIOS

Could someone describe exactly how to change the boot order on the T520 from the BIOS? I have spent hours trying to do something that should be very straightforward and simple. Any directoin would be appreciated.
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Hi rsbonini,
I moved your post here from an old thread that was about managing UEFI BIOS boot order with scripts...
I wonder if you're being tripped up by the same thing that got me with my T420: The ">Boot" line in BIOS -> Start Up looks like a heading for the rest of the page, but it actually links to an expandable menu. (That's what the ">" is indicating, I guess). This got me and a few of my friends.
Highlight that ">"Boot" line and hit enter, and you should get the boot priority list with instructions on how to change it in the right pane.
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That is not the boot list. Select >Boot to get the boot list. You're looking in the wrong place.
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WIth the T410/T510 I could use the SetConfig.vbs to change the boot order in BIOS. However with the newer laptops (T420, T520, X220) that have the UEFI BIOS the SetConfig.vbs doesn't seem to work. Is there another way of scripting the boot order change? I also tried running the ListAll.vbs and didn't see anything related to the boot order listed in WMI. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I tried your exact script on T520 with BIOS 1.27
1. in the case where LAN cable is connected to network with PXE server <-- system booted to LAN successfully
2. in the case where LAN cable is not connected <-- system booted to HDD after LAN boot failed to detect media
3. in the case where LAN cable is connected to network without PXE server <-- system booted to HDD after LAN boot timed out
So I could not repro any problem. What am I missing? Are you on a dock? Are there any other peripherals connected?
As for your other question, I'm sorry that I'm not following it. You can change the boot order in the Startup menu, the very first option is "Boot" where you can set any boot order you want just like previous systems.

U300s: Cannot access BIOS to change boot order

I was dual booting Windows 8.1 Update and Ubnutu 14.04
From the windows disk manager I deleted all Ubuntu partitions and rebooted my notebook. I was immediatlly present with the grub rescue promt. Normally this is a quick and easy fix, by booting a windows USB/CD and repairing the windows MBR.
My problem is I can't access the bios or the boot menu to change the boot order. Nothing I've tried has let me get into the bios to set my USB stick as the first boot option.
Using the small recovery key button on the side of the notebook which normally boots the notebook to the screen where you can choose which drive to boot does the same as the power button. There is no bios flash screen or abililty to press any keys before getting to the grub screen.
I've drained the battery and left over night hoping this would reset the state it seems to be stuck in but that also did nothing.
Here is a short video showing what happens when I boot the notebook http://youtu.be/2FpC2Deuawk

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I was dual booting Windows 8.1 Update and Ubnutu 14.04
From the windows disk manager I deleted all Ubuntu partitions and rebooted my notebook. I was immediatlly present with the grub rescue promt. Normally this is a quick and easy fix, by booting a windows USB/CD and repairing the windows MBR.
My problem is I can't access the bios or the boot menu to change the boot order. Nothing I've tried has let me get into the bios to set my USB stick as the first boot option.
Using the small recovery key button on the side of the notebook which normally boots the notebook to the screen where you can choose which drive to boot does the same as the power button. There is no bios flash screen or abililty to press any keys before getting to the grub screen.
I've drained the battery and left over night hoping this would reset the state it seems to be stuck in but that also did nothing.
Here is a short video showing what happens when I boot the notebook http://youtu.be/2FpC2Deuawk
I think the problem is in deleting Ubuntu. According to this video after the deletion of the Ubuntu partitions they must be combined back to the Windows partition.

Satellite L750 BIOS trouble - cannot change boot order

Hello reader/answerer of my questions,
I am having some trouble with my 750 ODN's bios. This bios was an official update (3.6) from the support centre, and almost everything has been fine since (the plot thickens!). I decided one day I wanted to dual boot with linux, in particular Fedora (this is not related to it though).
But, when I burned the disc and tried to live boot (too test it out) I found that the boot order was set to hard drive first! I rebooted and pressed f12 - didn't work.
I tried delete and escape - neither worked. I then tried all the f keys - none of them worked.
Every time it took me to Windows boot menu, and I explored that and I couldn't find anything.
It's also worth mentioning I am running Win 7 SP1.
I tried both PLoP and osloader (too boot from the dvd) - neither worked.
I also can't remember what the key to start the bios was originally - oops!
Also the toshiba logo with instructions never appears.
I would really just like too change the boot order though, the rest of the bios I don't need access too right now.
A separate issue is that Windows randomly decides it wants to check my hard drive, which takes ages, and it won't give up until it gets to check it. I think it may need some medical help.
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Hi
> I also can't remember what the key to start the bios was originally - oops!
Pressing F2 while powering up the unit would help you to access the BIOS.
But you dont need to change the booting order within the BIOS. You can do that by pressing F12. This should be done immediately after you have powered up the notebook.
Then the boot menu would appear and you could choose the right boot device.
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Changing Boot Order on Dual Boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu

Hi there,
Recently got a HP Pavilion g6 2213sa which came with Windows 8 (spit!) and this disgusting UEFI BIOS replacement (double spit!).
Anyway, I need to dual boot Ubuntu on my system, so I installed Ubuntu. Normally, on a non UEFI system, a "Grub" bootloader installed by Linux would take over the startup process, and allow you to choose between either Windows 8 or Ubuntu on startup.
However, on this computer, startup is just booting straight to Windows 8 despite the fact that Ubuntu and Grub IS installed.
Now, upon startup, if I press F9, then I get to change the boot-device on a one-time basis. I can either select "OS Boot Manager", which loads Windows 8, or "Ubuntu" which loads the Grub bootloader which allows me to select Windows 8 or Ubuntu.
However, when I press F10 to enter the Bios Setup with the intention of changing the boot order permanently, the Ubuntu option isn't there. Instead it has OS Manager, USB Disk, CD Rom, USB CD Rom and Network Card.
Thanks, HP for, the crappily designed BIOS.
Anyway, can anyone PLEASE provide me a way of changing the boot order so that GRUB is loaded first and NOT this crap Windows 8 rubbish (that I would happily bin if I didn't need it for work).

There is the same problem in HP 2000 laptops (in my case specifically, HP 2000-2D22DX). I did some investigation using trial and error, and this is what I found out:
There is some sort of a "recovery feature" or so that on every boot sets the very first UEFI load option to point to one of the two locations, in this order:
\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi
This option is displayed as "OS boot Manager" (for the first path) and something akin to "UEFI partition" for the second path, completely ignoring the actual name given to it (when you look at the EFI variables through efibootmgr, you can see that what is displayed as "OS boot Manager" actually is set to the name "Windows Boot Manager"; why anyone would do such renaming is beyond me). If you try to change the boot order so that this slot isn't the first, the UEFI will overwrite the BootOrder variable on next boot and reset it to point to "OS boot Manager" anyway.
By default, both of the paths above contain the same Microsoft bootloader (if you check the md5sum of both, you'll see they match).
So, until HP releases an updated UEFI that allows turning this "feature" off or rearranging boot options through the F10 UEFI setup, this is what you can do to get dual boot with the least amount of hackiness:
In Windows, mount the UEFI partition (mountvol S: /S mounts it as the S: drive) and copy the file \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi to use some other name (for example, I copied it to "\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi~", but you can change the name to anything else).
In the Windows command prompt, update the Windows UEFI entry to point to the new name: bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi~ (adapt to your set name accordingly).
Optionally, change the name of the Windows boot loader so that you would be certain that it points to the new file location: bcdedit /set {bootmgr} description "Fixed Windows path"
Install the other OS. In my case the bootloader was installed into \EFI\opensuse\grubx64.efi.
Delete the two files, \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi and \EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi.
Use efibootmgr to delete the "OS boot Manager" entry: sudo efibootmgr -b 0000 -B
Set the new OS bootloader to be the default bootloader by using efibootmgr with the -o option. In my case, I had an entry called "opensuse" in slot Boot0001 and the updated path Windows entry in slot Boot0002, so I had to do sudo efibootmgr -o 0001,0002
Update GRUB to point the Windows entry to your renamed file (you'll have to create a new file in /etc/grub.d and rerun grub-mkconfig).
And that's it, now the UEFI will boot GRUB by default (it won't regenerate the "OS boot Manager" entry since it won't be able to find either of the two hardcoded paths and will "fall back" to properly reading the BootOrder variable), and the F9 menu will still allow choosing to boot Windows directly.

Re: Satellite A210-10A, crashes when changing boot order

Hello,
I have a serious problem with my Toshiba laptop, Windows Vista 32bit, 1.8Ghz, 2Gb RAM, AMD Turion 64 x2
There is one hard disk partitioned as two 75Gb drives (C and E).
The problem is that, whenever I enter the Boot menu (to boot from CD), or if I change within the BIOS the boot order and then restart, the computer crashes (power cuts off suddenly).
Then the only way to recover, is to plug out the AC/DC adapter, wait 5 min, and start again. Then, either everything goes on normally, or Windows system recovery launches, after what it will reboot and work fine.
It might be important to know that I repartitioned the E drive to have 30Gb for installing Win7 later on. The annoying thing is that I never tried changing the boot order before repartitioning, so I don't know whether it has something to do with the problem or if it was there before.
Any help or suggestion would be appreciated.
Thank you,
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hi,
> The problem is that, whenever I enter the Boot menu (to boot from CD), or if I change within the BIOS the boot order and then restart, the computer crashes (power cuts off suddenly).
It looks like the Bios related issue. Have you tried to update it or reflash?
> The annoying thing is that I never tried changing the boot order before repartitioning, so I don't know whether it has something to do with the problem or if it was there before.
Maybe this took place before but you didn't check.

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I have a Toshiba A45-S120 laptop that has previously worked fine. I hadn't turned it on for several weeks. When I tried last week, after the WinXP splash screen came up, the progress bar completed one pass and then the video froze and showed a ghosted image of the WinXP logo off to the right of the real one and the two images were displayed in alternating vertical stripes, almost as thought you were looking through vertical blinds. At that point, there was no further boot progress.
Pressing Esc got me into the BIOS page, so it doesn't appear that there was a hardware video problem. The only options that I can could in the BIOS were the time and password (which is not set). With the recovery DVD in the drive, I couldn't get the system to boot to the CD/DVD drive no matter what I did. I tried all the suggestions of F12, F2, etc., and nothing highlighted any of the row of icons across the bottom of the Toshiba spalsh screen. When I booted, unless I pressed Esc, the system recognized the failed Windows boot and went into the text screen giving me all the safe mode start options.
After typing the above, I had one other thought - to try to force the issue, I replaced the hard drive with one that should have been blank but I got the same louvered WinXP logo. Thinking maybe I had a drive that wasn't blank as it should be, I tried a known blank drive. Now I get no response from the system at all when I try to power it on, even when swapping back to either of the other hard drives.
Is this stuff symptomatic of a dying system or is there something I can do to resurrect it and force the DVD restore somehow? Refurbishing desktops is a hobby of mine but I haven't had much experience with troubleshooting and repairing laptop issues, so thanks in advance for any pointers.
JEFF
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Well, I have good news and confusing news to report...
The dongle worked as advertised. I booted with it installed, powered down and removed it, then restarted the machine. I was able to change the boot device and enter BIOS with the ability to change the boot order, etc.
I then ran the recovery process. The ghosted image restored and then, when the machine restarted, I got the same problem that started it all... the WinXP splash screen came up, the progress bar completed one pass and then the video froze and showed a ghosted image of the WinXP logo off to the right of the real one and the two images were displayed in alternating vertical stripes, almost as thought you were looking through vertical blinds. There were also 4 or 5 thin vertical stripes that were flashing as though video was being displayed though them like it used to if you used an older monitor with a new system that couldn't display things properly. At that point, there was no further boot progress.
In order to do a bit more troubleshooting, I booted the system with a live Linux CD - it booted and ran OK. I then tried installing Ubuntu. It started and then the screen went wonky again, with pixellating lines all over. I then repartitioned it, ran scandisk on the hard drive overnight (no errors), and reran the recovery process. Same shadow image when the XP splash screen appears - and it does this both during the ordinary booting process as well as during an attempted safe mode boot.
As I was typing the above, I remembered one other thing I meant to try. I reset the BIOS to default values and reran the recovery process - still a messed up WinXP splash screen after the progress bar makes 2 or 3 passes.
If anyone has ideas, I'd be grateful for the help.

Change boot order HP 23-f250

I am using a HP 23-F250 AIO and I am trying to boot from a rescue DVD. inst. were to use F12 and change the boot from DVD. Do I have to change the seq. in the bios first? I am using Macrium software to do a restore from an Image file.
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Press the power button and then tap the Esc key to invoke the startup menu.
In the startup menu, choose the F9 key to change the boot order.
Use the arrow key to select the ATAPI CD/DVD drive and then press the Enter key to select it as the boot device.
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W520 UEFI boot order changes not persistent

I have had a W520 for the entire summer. I have always double or triple booted my laptops because of the nature of my work, but this is the first system I have ever owned with UEFI.
The problem: the W520 BIOS/Firmware/UEFI or whatever you want to call it does not keep the GPT boot order of the OS's that I attempt to save. When I reboot and go back to the BIOS after saving it, it is in the same order that I started, which is in fact, the order that I installed the operating systems that, starting with the last one that I installed, first. I called up Lenovo tech support and very quickly they conveyed to me that Lenovo only supports single boot of the operating system that came bundled with the installation.
I thought a later BIOS would help. No such luck.
As much as I have read about UEFI, I know that the boot order is stored in the UEFI NVRAM. There are some third-party utils that can edit the NVRAM configuration, but I was not able to find a cookbook guide clear enough wear I was OK messing with the health of my well populated analysis workstation. If anyone has any experience with a step-by-step solution, I would be interested in hearing, and even paying, for your expertise as needed.
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
It doesn't change the boot order, it create a new item "boot from file".
Are you using a virtual machine or physical machine?
If you are using a virtual machine, you can change the boot order from hyper-v settings.
If you are using a physical machine, you need to change the boot order manually.
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