Timeout option not working on efi windows 7/windows8 dual boot machine
- by Guenter
I hav a gigbyte GA-Z77m-D3h mobo and installed Windows 8 Pro and Windows 7 Ultimate on two SSDs (in that order) in EFI mode.
Now when I start my computer, I get the windows boot menu (text mode) with the two OSses to choose, but I have to manually press RETURN to have the computer boot into the Win OS. Even if I wait an hour, no default action takes place.
Using bcdedit (from either of the OSses) I can successfully change the time out value, and it shows up in the bcdedit (no params) output. But it doesn't fire ...
Here is my current BCDEdit output (headers are in German, but values should be readable):
Windows-Start-Manager
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Bezeichner {bootmgr}
device partition=O:
path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
description Windows Boot Manager
locale de-DE
inherit {globalsettings}
integrityservices Enable
default {default}
resumeobject {5ad2802c-c60a-11e2-acdb-80331c501b11}
displayorder {default}
{current}
{5ad2802a-c60a-11e2-acdb-80331c501b11}
{5ad28028-c60a-11e2-acdb-80331c501b11}
{5ad28029-c60a-11e2-acdb-80331c501b11}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 5
displaybootmenu Yes
Windows-Startladeprogramm
-------------------------
Bezeichner {default}
device partition=W:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 7
locale de-DE
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {5ad2802e-c60a-11e2-acdb-80331c501b11}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=W:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {5ad2802c-c60a-11e2-acdb-80331c501b11}
nx OptIn
Windows-Startladeprogramm
-------------------------
Bezeichner {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 8
locale de-DE
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {5ad28033-c60a-11e2-acdb-80331c501b11}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {5ad28031-c60a-11e2-acdb-80331c501b11}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
hypervisorlaunchtype Auto
(this output is from Win8; the Win7 looks nearly identical)
If maybe the problem comes from a bad EFI Windows boot manager installation, can this be fixed without loosing my windows installations?
