Is efibootmgr expected to work?

[Alexander Volovics]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:48:41PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

> 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?

Just efibootmgr -o 0D,0C

Do you know if efibootmgr leaves any trace of it's activities anywhere
(/sys/firmware/efi ?) so that I might get a clue what happened
using a rescue disk with CSM.

AV