Ghost images restored to EFI configured system won't retain the proper boot order.

Products

• Ghost Solution Suite

Issue/Introduction

After deploying a EFI image to a Ghost Client the boot order in the bios/firmware will list the Windows Boot Manager/Hard drive last regardless of boot order before deploying. 

Environment

Ghost Solution Suite 3.x 
Windows Clients OS's loaded in EFI mode rather than Bios/Legacy

Cause

When a EFI ghost image is restored to an EFI system ghost will update the Firmware to point to the Windows Boot Manager as the last item to boot from.

Resolution

If a customer needs to have the 'windows boot manager' as the first boot item they can add the '-fixefiboot' to the Ghost command line.

There is currently no code to preserve (re-generate) existing boot order for EFI after deploying an image.

'-FixEfiBoot' switch moves 'Windows Boot Manager' to the first item in the list. Bitlocker and/or Secure Boot may change this behavior if enabled on the endpoint before the image deploy.

The boot order is not changed if doing partition imaging instead of disk imaging.