A315-56-BIOS BOOT PRIORITY TEXT GARBLED text such as "2syH20".

Ananthu_56
Ananthu_56 Member Posts: 6

Tinkerer

edited March 21 in Aspire Laptops

So, I have a acer aspire a315-56 and I came across a video in which a person was dual booting mac OS and windows. Seeing that, I felt like I too want to do it. So that's exactly what I did. I installed mac OS even though I faced some trouble from the start. So, after all that was done, I had just a final step to finish up which was to move EFI files to the EFI partition on my disk from my bootable U which is exactly what I did and screwed up my EFI files, but I did fix it coz I had a bootable Hirens drive set up. I did screw up over 10+ times and finally I did it. Then I faced the next problem, I couldn't choose mac OS, which eventually was fixed with a CMD command and when I checked my bios, I got 2 windows boot manager entries out of which 1 was windows and the other mac. now that wasn't an issue for me, but my issue was I didn't get the open core picker anymore where I could choose between windows and mac. Again, after too many troubleshoots, I fixed it with the help of a video and once that was done, I did the final changes moving EFI partition successfully. I even got the open core picker after doing NV ram reset from open core. Now after that I installed, and application called EASYUEFI AND MADE an entry for open core and it definitely did work but that's when I noticed something was wrong with my boot priority order names. I checked it within windows again, it was fine, tried f12, it was fine, but bios showed me "2." When I pressed f6 to increase priority it showed me garbled text such as "2syH20". That's when I realized something was wrong and now idk wt. to do. It's just this that's messed up and rest of my bios is fine. I did try the load default settings but that just froze my bios 😕 😞. Kindly help me figure this out 😭😭😭.

BTW IM ABLE TO BOOT INTO WINDOWS AND MAC WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE

[Edited the thread to add model name and issue detail to the title]

Answers

  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,919 Pathfinder

    @Ananthu_56

    It might be the BIOS does not fully support displaying the MacOS boot, which leads to that bug. Try to update the BIOS or leave it as it is.

    Please remember to include @AnhEZ28 when you want to reply back to my comment so that I can check your response.
    Thank you and have a nice day!
  • Ananthu_56
    Ananthu_56 Member Posts: 6

    Tinkerer

    First of all thanks for the reply.. I fixed it by doing one more nvram reset from opencore boot picker.. and tested bios to see if it was fine and thank God didn't gave any issues + no freeze when loading to default settings.. and to make sure I can run mac os without any issues , i made boot entry again , but this time with cmd and thankfully encountered no more problems. now I can successfully dual boot windows and mac os without messing up anything 😍.