Re: Ineradicable EFI boot entry

Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:32:23 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday, 14 June 2026 23:49:51 British Summer Time Michael wrote:

> Boot with a LiveUSB.  Then as Joost suggested, check the virtual
> directory '/sys/firmware/efi/efivars' is mounted with read-write access
> permissions, e.g.
> 
>  ~ $ mount | grep efivars
> efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> 
> If it is not writeable remount it 'rw' and run efibootmgr to find out
> the entry number of the SUSE bootloader.  Then delete the corresponding
> XXXX entry with:
> 
> 'efibootmgr -b XXXX --delete-bootnum'
> 
> If the EFI firmware is triggered at boot to scan disks and block devices
> it will flush it from the list, but instead of messing about with
> disconnecting drives it is easier to follow the above steps.

Yes, I've done all that, as I said before. It has no effect. None.y

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Regards,
Peter.