Revisiting Solus and need my boot menu cleaned up

Jumpy

With all the turmoil with Solus this year and buying a new pc I was forced to try other distros (Linux Mint and EndeavourOS). Now it's time to move back to Solus. I replaced EndeavourOS with Solus, but will still keep Mint until I have Solus fully set up.

So far I have removed the boot entry of EndeavourOS using the command "$ sudo efibootmgr -b 0 -B" and BIOS doesn't recognize it anymore. I have enabled the Solus boot menu using the command "$ sudo clr-boot-manager set-timeout 20 && sudo clr-boot-manager update". Yeat the Solus boot menu shows four kernel options for EndeavourOS and none for Mint. How can I purge all the options for EndeavourOS? And how can I have Mint added to the list?

brent

Jumpy most people here swear by efibootmgrin the repo to erase boot entries/change boot order. it's never done a damn thing right for me as a tool but I am obviously the tiny minority.
I personally would take out the trash with gparted when it came to that partition and subsequent entries. There's probably 3 other ways to delete old boot entries but I just remember these 2-ish.
Welcome back.
PS--I just found Endeavour. You outgrew it fast.
PSS--Edit; can't answer the Mint question

Jumpy

I was finally able to clean out the garbage. The remnants from EndeavourOS were located on the uefi-boot-esp-fat32-partition. Here's what I did:

1) Boot to Solus-live-usb (I don't know if this is necessary)
2) $ sudo mount -o rw /dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot
- The name of the partition "nvme0n1p1" I found out using GParted
3) Navigate to /boot directory using the nemo filemanager.
4) One directory named 59415ac2eed841f7a1920447b912c084 seemed to be the related to EndeavourOS as it contained subdirectories like 6.1.24-1-lts and 6.2.11-arch1-1. I deleted this directory.
5) $ sudo umount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot

Now the solus uefi-boot-menu is nice and clean.
I wonder why my LinuxMint boot entry is not listed though?

brent

Jumpy nice to know there is a manual way to do this. efibootmgr has proved very ineffective for me over the years and I would love to kill boot debris. there must be some risk to ripping stuff out by hand. guess I'll find out when I get there🙂