Updated motherboard BIOS and Solus disappeared.

banger

My BIOS is EFI but I cant access the Solus boot loader. I have Windows 10,11 and Zorin successfully booting from my NVME but since BIOS security update hitting F12 at boot shows 1 entry for the NVME and that no longer boots. It used to say Solus 4.7 now says Force MP510 which is my NVME drive.

How do I add a boot entry with efibootmgr as I can see Zorin and boot into it and use efibootmgr just need the specifics to boot Solus.

banger

Can someone with a UEFI BIOS post the output of efibootmgr -v

brent

$ efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,000D,000E,000C,000B,0005,0004
Boot0000* Solus Linux Bootloader HD(1,GPT,3a7e7ff8-584b-4063-a254-e5b894037c42,0x800,0x200000)/\EFI\COM.SOLUS-PROJECT\BOOTLOADERX64.EFI
dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 f8 7f 7e 3a 4b 58 63 40 a2 54 e5 b8 94 03 7c 42 02 02 / 04 04 56 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 43 00 4f 00 4d 00 2e 00 53 00 4f 00 4c 00 55 00 53 00 2d 00 50 00 52 00 4f 00 4a 00 45 00 43 00 54 00 5c 00 42 00 4f 00 4f 00 54 00 4c 00 4f 00 41 00 44 00 45 00 52 00 58 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
Boot0004* Generic Usb Device VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
dp: 01 04 14 00 e7 75 e2 99 a0 75 37 4b a2 e6 c5 38 5e 6c 00 cb / 7f ff 04 00
Boot0005* CD/DVD Device VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
dp: 01 04 14 00 e7 75 e2 99 a0 75 37 4b a2 e6 c5 38 5e 6c 00 cb / 7f ff 04 00
Boot000B* UEFI: IP6 Intel(R) Ethernet Connection I217-LM PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x19,0x0)/MAC(4439c4950472,0)/IPv6([::],0,Static,[::],[::],64)0000424f
dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 00 19 / 03 0b 25 00 44 39 c4 95 04 72 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 / 03 0d 3c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
data: 00 00 42 4f
Boot000C* UEFI: IP4 Intel(R) Ethernet Connection I217-LM PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x19,0x0)/MAC(4439c4950472,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.0,0,DHCP,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0)0000424f
dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 00 19 / 03 0b 25 00 44 39 c4 95 04 72 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 / 03 0c 1b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
data: 00 00 42 4f
Boot000D* UEFI OS HD(1,GPT,3a7e7ff8-584b-4063-a254-e5b894037c42,0x800,0x200000)/\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 f8 7f 7e 3a 4b 58 63 40 a2 54 e5 b8 94 03 7c 42 02 02 / 04 04 30 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 42 00 4f 00 4f 00 54 00 5c 00 42 00 4f 00 4f 00 54 00 58 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
Boot000E* UEFI OS HD(2,GPT,2108ff36-ef92-43f4-9f68-38cd0424b01b,0xe547000,0x1f4000)/\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
dp: 04 01 2a 00 02 00 00 00 00 70 54 0e 00 00 00 00 00 40 1f 00 00 00 00 00 36 ff 08 21 92 ef f4 43 9f 68 38 cd 04 24 b0 1b 02 02 / 04 04 30 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 42 00 4f 00 4f 00 54 00 5c 00 42 00 4f 00 4f 00 54 00 58 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00

banger

brent Many thanks with your info and EasyUEFI I was able to create an EFI entry and can now boot Solus. 😃

brent

banger whenever I borked the boot I've always chrooted which is like having a molar drilled out..
what do programs like EasyUEFI do? kind of mount the drive, over-ride permissions, and fix the borked partion?

banger

brent EasyUEFI has the ability to access the EFI list similar to efibootmgr but it is a lot simpler to use in Windows or USB boot. You can create an entry in your EFI list and get it to point the partition you need to boot without a lot of typing. I dont think chroot'ing would have helped me in this situation as the BIOS update had deleted the Solus EFI entry.

brent

banger You can create an entry in your EFI list and get it to point the partition you need to boot without a lot of typing.

I likey! thanks for the explanation