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When no boot entries exist in the EFIVARS store, it tries to load the fallback $ESP/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi loader. Should that also fail, the VM gets booted into the EFI Shell  Add a Boot Option  Short How-To  Start-up the VM and press ESC to get into the OVMF menu. Then "Boot Maintenance Manager" -> "Boot Options" -> "Add Boot Option" -> choose Disk with the Efi System Partition. Now find the EFI executable, for example for Debian: EFI/debian/grubx64.efi or for Fedora: EFI/fedora/shimx64-fedora.efi . Name it ("Input the description") and "Commit Change" Use "Change Boot Order" to order the new entry to the top.  Detailed How-To  To add an entry of an existing bootloader go into the OVMF Menu by pressing 'ESC' during boot.
Then select 'Boot Maintenance Manager':  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi02.png) (OVMF Menu) (OVMF Menu)   Select 'Boot Options':  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi03.png) (Boot Maintenance Manager) (Boot Maintenance Manager)   Select 'Add Boot Option':  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi04.png) (Boot Options) (Boot Options)   Choose the Hard Drive with the ESP:  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi05.png) (Add Boot Option) (Add Boot Option)   Navigate the folder structure to your bootloader (EFI/debian/shimx64.efi in this example)  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi06.png) (Bootloader File Chooser /) (Bootloader File Chooser /)  → (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi07.png) (Bootloader File Chooser /EFI) (Bootloader File Chooser /EFI)  → (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi08.png) (Bootloader File Chooser /EFI/debian) (Bootloader File Chooser /EFI/debian)   After that, enter a name and commit:  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi09.png) (Modify Boot Option) (Modify Boot Option)  → (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi10.png) (Modify Boot Option) (Modify Boot Option)  → (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi11.png) (Modify Boot Option) (Modify Boot Option)   To make it the default boot entry, you now have to change the boot order:  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi12.png) (Boot Options) (Boot Options)   Press enter, select the boot entry with the arrow keys and move it up and down with '+' and '-' respectively. Then
press enter again and commit your changes:  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi13.png) (Change Boot Order) (Change Boot Order)  → (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi14.png) (Change Boot Order) (Change Boot Order)   The last step is to reset the VM via OVMF, after that it should boot using the just configured boot entry.  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/File:Efi15.png) (OVMF Menu) (OVMF Menu)   References  (Jump up) ↑  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface   (Jump up) ↑  EFI System Partition. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition      Retrieved from ""  (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Special:Categories) (Special:Categories) Category : (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Category:HOWTO) (Category:HOWTO) HOWTO       Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies.  (https://www.proxmox.com/en/privacy-policy)  More information    (OK)  OK        Navigation menu  (https://pve.proxmox.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=OVMF%2FUEFI+Boot+Entries) (You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [alt-shift-o]) Log in       (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OVMF/UEFI_Boot_Entries) (View the content page [alt-shift-c]) Page   (https://pve.proxmox.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Talk:OVMF/UEFI_Boot_Entries&action=edit&redlink=1) (Discussion about the content page (page does not exist) [alt-shift-t]) Discussion         (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OVMF/UEFI_Boot_Entries) Read   (https://pve.proxmox.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=OVMF/UEFI_Boot_Entries&action=edit) (This page is protected.
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