Is efibootmgr expected to work?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jun 21 00:48:41 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 13:14 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On a Dell Inspiron 7720 with a working up to date install
> of Fed 19 beta I decided, for no good reason, to change the
> order of the Fedora and CD entries in the EFI boot menu using
> efibootmgr.
> 
> However when trying to boot again the only entry available
> in the EFI boot menu was for PXE boot.
> All other entries (Fedora, CD, USB) were either deleted or
> "blanked".
> So I am unable to boot Fedora in EFI mode again.
> 
> I have no time to look into this further at the moment but
> I would like to know if it is at all save to use efibootmgr.

In general, yes, AFAIK it's supposed to work. It's what anaconda uses at
install time to configure the boot menu.

Can you remember / recall from notes or 'history' exactly what
efibootmgr commands you ran?
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