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On Monday, 19 October 2020 14:08:05 -00 Michael wrote: |
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> Are you saying calling 'efibootmgr -v' lists a different UEFI boot menu? |
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No, I'm saying that I appear to be able to create a BIOS entry using |
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efibootmgr, but when I reboot and enter BIOS setup, the entry often isn't |
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there. Or if it is, either the kernel won't boot, or it does but the resulting |
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system is incomplete. |
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When I bought this system I failed entirely to install grub - I followed the |
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instructions slavishly and received much help from those more knowledgeable on |
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this list at the time, but never got the system to boot. Then, groping about |
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trying to understand efibootmgr, bootctl and UEFI generally, I may have done |
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some combination of things that prevented those tools from ever working again. |
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For me. On this machine. |
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So the summary is: I can preserve the ESP using Windows's system image |
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creation and recovery tool, but not with those two Linux tools. |
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I've wasted several months wrestling with this, and I've finished up with what |
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I've described. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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