Remove Bootentries from EFI

Regius

Hi there,
I just noticed that ive got a lot of left over boot entries on my system. I know that there is a possibility to delete them via efibootmgr, but Im not sure which one of these i can delete without killing my system.

dbarron

Suggestion: Read, look at entries, look at dates.
Good luck, I did it...didn't scramble system (well except I deleted the solus linux kernel I think), but was easy to put back (I think) with clr-boot-manager before I was impacted in any way.
Please note, I did it by mounting the partition and exploring it via shell.

Regius

dbarron So you did it "manually" via shell? No usage of efibootmgr?

dbarron

Correct..just mounted partitition and started whacking.
Remember the original linux philosophy was that everything is just a file.

Regius

dbarron hmm okay. i just mounted my efi partition. But beside solus, there where no entrys at all.

dbarron

Then either they are on another drive (shouldn't be) or efibootmgr is lying (I haven't used it..no idea 😉) Oh I see, you only have Linux on your disk (darn not being able to click on the screen you uploaded to view larger).
All 2 under /EFI/system/goofiboot, I think I would not try to prune anything, there's not much there. The rest is BIOS related stuff.

Justin

Suggestion: Backup your EFI boot stubs before making any changes to ensure they can be put back.