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Re: efibootmgr headach?



On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:51:26 +0100
deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > "debian" is obviously put there by the Debian installer.  There may
> > be other entries as well, which were put there by other entities.  
> 
> you are right, but OP said he left Windows months ago
> 

The BIOS, or whatever it's supposed to be called these days, mucks
about with the EFI table. In the case of a certain Acer BIOS, any
attempt to set DefaultBoot will be overwritten by the default first
drive, and if that drive does not contain the relevant code, booting
will not occur, and another 'debian' entry will be added to the EFI
table. The BIOS will continue to try to boot from the unbootable drive,
and will add another EFI entry each time it does so.

-- 
Joe


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