Re: Ineradicable EFI boot entry
Joost Roeleveld <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:00:13 +0200
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This message is in MIME format. ----_com.ninefolders.hd3.email_162933801715842_alt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 There is an efi "partition" mounted under /sys. This is read only by default (afaik). Try remounting this RW and try efibootmgr to delete the entry again. Alternatively, the BIOS menu should have an option to delete it. Sent from Nine ________________________________ From: Peter Humphrey [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday 14 June 2026 19:34 To: [[email protected]] Subject: [gentoo-user] Ineradicable EFI boot entry 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? -- Regards, Peter. ----_com.ninefolders.hd3.email_162933801715842_alt Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body><div id=3D"nine_body_n19ec7b-6bc3e" class=3D"nine_body mceEdita= ble" dir=3D"auto" style=3D"font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-ser= if; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 1.3; color: #1f497d;"><div class=3D"nin= e-pg" dir=3D"auto">There is an efi "partition" mounted under /sys.</div><di= v class=3D"nine-pg" dir=3D"auto">This is read only by default (afaik). Try = remounting this RW and try efibootmgr to delete the entry again.</div><div = class=3D"nine-pg" dir=3D"auto"><br /></div><div class=3D"nine-pg" dir=3D"au= to">Alternatively, the BIOS menu should have an option to delete it.</div><= div class=3D"nine-pg blank sign" dir=3D"auto"><br /></div><div id=3D"nine-s= ign-n19ec7b-6bc3e" class=3D"nine_signature" dir=3D"auto"><div class=3D"nine= -pg" dir=3D"auto">Sent from <a style=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #009b= df;" href=3D"http://www.9folders.com/">Nine</a></div></div></div><div class= =3D"quoted_output_body"><div id=3D"quoted_header_n19ec7b-6bc3e" class=3D"qu= oted_header_editor fold" dir=3D"auto"><hr style=3D"border: none; height: 1p= x; color: #e1e1e1; background-color: #e1e1e1;" /><div dir=3D"auto" style=3D= "border: none; padding: 3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style=3D"font-size: 11.0p= t; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From:</b> Peter = Humphrey [[email protected]]<br /><b>Sent:</b> Sunday 14 June 2026 19:3= 4<br /><b>To:</b> [[email protected]]<br /><b>Subject:</b> [gent= oo-user] Ineradicable EFI boot entry<br /></span></div></div><br type=3D'at= tribution'></div></body></html></br><pre>Greetings,<br /> <br /> I'm looking around for another distro to try, because the complexity of Gen= too <br /> keeps increasing and I'm not getting any younger.<br /> <br /> I found opensuse, and remembered that SuSE was my first venture into Linux,= so <br /> I gave it a go. Mistake number 1 (today, that is).<br /> <br /> The problem is that it's changed its way of maintaining the system, and it'= s <br /> all smoke and mirrors to me, so it's now gone - except that I can't remove = its <br /> EFI boot entry with efibootmgr. The EFI BIOS has settings for secureboot, <= br /> Intell platform protection, and admin and user passwords. I've cleared all = <br /> those, even run 'dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/nvme0n1p1' from a rescue syste= m. <br /> Nothing has erased the opensuse entry.<br /> <br /> Ideas, anyone?<br /> <br /> -- <br /> Regards,<br /> Peter.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </pre> <br> ----_com.ninefolders.hd3.email_162933801715842_alt--