After Fedora 41 Installation I cannot enter BIOS of Acer Nitro 5 [Dual Boot Windows 10]

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Hello Fedorans,

I recently realized that I cannot enter to BIOS menu after Fedora installation. On Windows 10 fast boot is disabled but always working F2 button to enter BIOS never works. Neither from Windows nor Fedora via command line firmware booting work too.

Found a subreddit solution but could not find any systemd related folder or grub file in my Fedora 41 setup. Then asked some AI tools Gemini told me that according to the subreddit solution;

sudo mv /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/Bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/Bootx64.efi.bak

However I could not be sure to apply and then opened this topic.

sudo ls /boot/efi

 EFI   mach_kernel   nvme0n1p4   refind-vars   System  'System Volume Information'

sudo efibootmgr

BootCurrent: 0006
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0006,0000,0005,0004,0002,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* rEFInd Boot Manager   HD(1,GPT,6f0f3e41-7df7-4a13-b8d7-079df87001f2,0x800,0x200000)/\EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi
Boot0001* USB HDD: SanDisk Cruzer Blade UsbWwid(781,5567,0,4C53000824081111405)/HD(2,MBR,0xca6f797c,0x1dc1800,0x10000)RC
Boot0002* Windows Boot Manager  HD(1,GPT,6f0f3e41-7df7-4a13-b8d7-079df87001f2,0x800,0x200000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
Boot0004* Fedora        HD(1,GPT,6f0f3e41-7df7-4a13-b8d7-079df87001f2,0x800,0x200000)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi
Boot0005* UEFI_SHELL    HD(1,GPT,6f0f3e41-7df7-4a13-b8d7-079df87001f2,0x800,0x200000)/\EFI\UEFISHELL\bootx64.efiRC
Boot0006* Fedora        HD(1,GPT,6f0f3e41-7df7-4a13-b8d7-079df87001f2,0x800,0x200000)/\EFI\fedora\shim.efi
Boot000A* UEFI_SHELL    HD(1,GPT,6f0f3e41-7df7-4a13-b8d7-079df87001f2,0x800,0x200000)/\EFI\UEFISHELL\bootx64.efi
Boot2001* EFI USB Device        RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM RC
Boot2003* EFI Network   RC

Also tried with rEFInd but impossible to enter BIOS with it too.

I need help to find a permanent solution.
Thanks

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The bios runs before the windows or fedora code does.

A web search for “acre bios key” tells me is DEL you need to type.

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It appears you may be using refind to boot instead of grub. Is that correct?

If you are using grub the grub boot menu should show an option to enter the bios setup.

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thanks for your help.

I several times reordered boot entries via efibootmgr but not sure which part is directly bios so to be top.

I tried F2, F8, Del, ESC only F2 stuck at acer logo that means it’s F2 for BIOS.

@computersavvy for that yeah it appears as refind but I’ve ordered with efibootmgr and picked fedora to the top. Laptop boots first acer logo then Fedora grub however no luck to access BIOS menu from anywhere.

According to the your view I must prioritize BIOS grub to the top. But I’m not sure where it’s and which part is. How to?