Not able to add entry for fedora-linux while individual/separate boot partition for windows and fedora-linux exists

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Not able to add entry for fedora-linux while individual/separate boot partition for windows and fedora-linux exists, enclosing screen shots for reference. partititon-1 windows boot and partition-3 fedora-linux boot. In add entry not able to add boot entry for fedora-linux in this use case. Seems like a bug???indvbootpartition.pngwin10.pngfedoralinux.pngwin10entry.png
 
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I am using grub boot loader which support both Windows and Linux dual boot where Windows has seperate UEFI boot partition and Linux has seperate UEFI boot partition and it works due to EasyBcd not able to support for this use case.
 
Use efibootmgr and set bootorder fedora-linux first, windows next and so on. NOTE: /dev/sda2 is windows EFI and /dev/sda7 is fedora-linux EFI individual/seperate EFI partitions for each OS. Woks fine.

root@toshibaicore3:/home/SKY# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 447.13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Disk model: PNY CS1311 480GB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: FAA74B39-E491-11EA-8E74-A3F9689222EA

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 923647 921600 450M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2 923648 1456127 532480 260M EFI System
/dev/sda3 1456128 1718271 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 1718272 292165631 290447360 138.5G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 292165632 293089279 923648 451M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6 293089280 312578047 19488768 9.3G Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda7 312578048 312989695 411648 201M EFI System
/dev/sda8 312989696 315084799 2095104 1023M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda9 315084800 937701375 622616576 296.9G Linux filesystem


root@toshibaicore3:/home/SKY# efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0003
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0003,0000,0006,2003,2001,2002
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager HD(2,GPT,faa74b42-e491-11ea-8e74-a3f9689222ea,0xe1800,0x82000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi57494e4
44f5753000100000088000000780000004200430044004f0042004a004500430054003d007b00390064006500610038003600320063002d0035006300640064002d003
4006500370030002d0061006300630031002d006600330032006200330034003400640034003700390035007d00000064000100000010000000040000007fff0400
Boot0001* EFI Network 0 for IPv6 (00-8C-FA-22-5A-46) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(008cfa225a46,0)/IPv6([::],0,Static
,[::],[::],64)RC
Boot0002* EFI Network 0 for IPv4 (00-8C-FA-22-5A-46) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(008cfa225a46,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.0,0,DHC
P,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0)RC
Boot0003* Fedora HD(7,GPT,ff709b53-d03c-43ac-b556-c7bdb188b49d,0x12a19000,0x64800)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi
Boot0006* EFI HDD Device (PNY CS1311 480GB SSD) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1f,0x2)/Sata(0,0,0)/HD(7,GPT,ff709b53-d03c-43ac-b556-c7bdb188b49d,0
x12a19000,0x64800)RC
Boot000C* EFI Network 0 for IPv6 (00-8C-FA-22-5A-46) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(008cfa225a46,0)/IPv6([::],0,Static
,[::],[::],64)RC
Boot000D* EFI Network 0 for IPv4 (00-8C-FA-22-5A-46) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(008cfa225a46,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.0,0,DHC
P,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0)RC
Boot2001* EFI USB Device RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM RC
Boot2003* EFI Network RC
 
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