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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

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
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 20:50 +0100
Message-ID <Doyls-81D-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <Doszn-4Az-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <DoqHg-3u6-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <Dot2p-4ZL-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <DoqHg-3u6-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <Dot2p-4ZL-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
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Le 28/11/2021 à 15:06, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 02:24:06PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>
>>> 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. :-/

This is too detrimental to Debian IMO, there are too many broken UEFI 
firmwares out there. As I suggested in a previous post, what about 
setting grub2/force_efi_extra_removable true by default when the file 
does not exist ?

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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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