No option to boot from 2nd hard drive unless it is manually selected F9.

[ntloser]

After adding 2nd hard drive there is no way to set it as a boot option. I must manually select it using F9

We know the UEFI boot entry is successfully registered in the bios because it shows up here. 

Hard drive boot entry is registered and will bootNo option to set 2nd drive at all

What's up with that?

Moving the bootloader to the EFI partition on the Windows drive (hard drive 1), I was able to manually add an entry to the BIOS from an EFI shell to make the Boot loader the first boot option. The boot loader can launch the OS on the 2nd hard drive. 

Not really a big deal since mac OS needs Clover boot loader to run but still a bit ridiculous the BIOS refuses to allow me to select or add boot entries from the 2nd hdd. 

[CF4]

Hi

Some possibilities,

EasyBCD

rEFIt  or  rEFInd  

I know it is a single drive, but expect that adding rEFIt or rEFInd or EasyBCD should help.

[ntloser]

Thanks. 

Once I moved the boot manager to SSD1, I was able to add a BIOS entry for it. I wonder if it is because SSD2 is in a drive caddy connected where the optical drive was. Maybe the BIOS is limiting it in some way.

[CF4]

Sorted/Solved?

[ntloser]

Well,  not really. I moved the boot loader to the first hard drive before making this thread. So I was able to find a solution but I'm still unsure if this model is limited to booting from hdd/ssd1. 

[ntloser · Accepted solution]

Ok. It is solved now. You can boot from the 2nd HDD/SSD. The trick is you MUST disable Windows Boot Manager entry from BIOS. I used Easy UEFI to make the change. 

All good.