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Bug#1000743: installation-reports: bootx64.efi didn't seem to get installed and no UEFI boot entry was created for Debian

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Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject Bug#1000743: installation-reports: bootx64.efi didn't seem to get installed and no UEFI boot entry was created for Debian
Date 2021-11-28 23:10 +0100
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Hi 
>>At least GRUB itself was installed in the EFI partition.
>>
>>> Shouldn't there normally be EFI/boot/bootx64.efi?
>>
>>Not by default. It happens only if you choose to install a copy of the boot
>>loader in the removable device path. The option is available only in expert
>>install or after changing priority for questions to low.
>
> Agreed. We deliberately do *not* install there by default as this can
> cause other OSes not to boot. We try to be more accommodating than
> Windows etc. :-/
>
Unless I did something wrong in the partitioning setup, there were no other operating systems. The only other EFI entry I had created in the firmware setup manually was one for the USB drive.

What do you mean by removable device in this case? /boot/EFI is on the same NVMe drive as the Debian install itself.

Thanks,
Adam

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Bug#1000743: installation-reports: bootx64.efi didn't seem to get installed and no UEFI boot entry was created for Debian Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2021-11-28 14:40 +0100
  Bug#1000743: installation-reports: bootx64.efi didn't seem to get installed and no UEFI boot entry was created for Debian Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-11-28 15:10 +0100
    Bug#1000743: installation-reports: bootx64.efi didn't seem to get installed and no UEFI boot entry was created for Debian Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2021-11-28 20:50 +0100
    Bug#1000743: installation-reports: bootx64.efi didn't seem to get installed and no UEFI boot entry was created for Debian debian@voltagex.org - 2021-11-28 23:10 +0100
      Bug#1000743: installation-reports: bootx64.efi didn't seem to get installed and no UEFI boot entry was created for Debian Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-11-28 23:20 +0100
  Bug#1000743: installation-reports: bootx64.efi didn't seem to get installed and no UEFI boot entry was created for Debian "Adam Baxter" <debian@voltagex.org> - 2021-11-28 23:10 +0100
    Bug#1000743: installation-reports: bootx64.efi didn't seem to get installed and no UEFI boot entry was created for Debian Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2021-11-29 00:40 +0100

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