Re: debian installation issue
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 07:09:29AM -0400, songbird wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> ...
> > It doesn't help that the BIOS is broken, that it does not honour the
> > EFI DefaultBoot, and always rewrites entry 0000 if I change it.
> > Fortunately, it does honour NextBoot, or I'd never be able to get it
> > booted into buster. But it worked with stretch. I could try installing
> > stretch again and take a disc image, but it's a fair bit of work when I
> > have no guarantee that whatever is missing will get replaced, and I do
> > have a workaround which works.
>
> after grub has updates i have to run a script which
> resets the boot order in uefi.
>
>
> #
> # efibootmgr
>
> BootCurrent: 0001
> Timeout: 1 seconds
> BootOrder: 0001,0000,0006,0007,0005
>
>
> # efibootmgr -o 0,1,5,6,7
> BootCurrent: 0001
> Timeout: 1 seconds
> BootOrder: 0000,0001,0005,0006,0007
>
>
> songbird
>
These sound like either: broken versions of UEFI / broken installations or,
exceptionally, a broken manufacturer somewhere.
It may be worth revisiting installations when Bulleseye comes out to
get something that works and is supportable for the next few years.
Andy C.
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