Re: Ineradicable EFI boot entry

On 6/14/26 12:34 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm looking around for another distro to try, because the complexity of Gentoo
> keeps increasing and I'm not getting any younger.
>
> I found opensuse, and remembered that SuSE was my first venture into Linux, so
> I gave it a go. Mistake number 1 (today, that is).
>
> The problem is that it's changed its way of maintaining the system, and it's
> all smoke and mirrors to me, so it's now gone - except that I can't remove its
> EFI boot entry with efibootmgr. The EFI BIOS has settings for secureboot,
> Intell platform protection, and admin and user passwords. I've cleared all
> those, even run 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1p1' from a rescue system.
> Nothing has erased the opensuse entry.
>
> Ideas, anyone?
>
Have you tried opening a terminal window, logging in as root, and 
mounting the EFI partition at /mnt?

You should then be able to see the SuSe EFI directory, and remove it 
with something like rm -r /mnt/EFI/SuSe. I've gotten rid of unwanted EFI 
sub-directories that way, and it always works for me.

D.Bryant
Canyon Lake TX