• adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    the 3rd gen optiplex mt we have here all exhibit something similar… you have to manually go into uefi settings and delete old or obsolete boot entries (due to reinstalls, swapping hdd, etc) otherwise the boot menu (f12) keeps listing every old one–by name. if you don’t, you could end up with five “Debian” and three “Fedora”, plus others, and not have a fucking clue which is the one that will actually boot.

    • billbasher@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      I wonder if it’s doing this still even though I use GRUB for dual boot… I’m scared to check haha

      • equivocal@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Run efibootmgr and find out. You can also delete the old/obsolete entries without having to go into the UEFI settings.

        • billbasher@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days ago

          $ efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0002 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: 0002,0000,0001,0003,0004,0005 Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,f21fed9d-a392-45ce-99c4-e2880663781a,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)57494e444f5753000100000088000000780000004200430044004f0042004a004500430054003d007b00390064006500610038003600320063002d0035006300640064002d0034006500370030002d0061006300630031002d006600330032006200330034003400640034003700390035007d00000031000100000010000000040000007fff0400 Boot0001* CustomShim HD(1,GPT,f21fed9d-a392-45ce-99c4-e2880663781a,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\custom\shimx64.efi) Boot0002* Ubuntu HD(1,GPT,f21fed9d-a392-45ce-99c4-e2880663781a,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi) Boot0003* UEFI:CD/DVD Drive BBS(129,0x0) Boot0004* UEFI:Removable Device BBS(130,0x0) Boot0005* UEFI:Network Device BBS(131,0x0) $

          Looks like I’m good thanks