Bug#1114960: systemd-boot: please stop adding kernel entries to NVRAM

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Thanks Bill. Someone really ought to get around fixing the BTS to
always CC the submitter on anything sent to their bug report.

ma 22.6.2026 klo 22.27 Bill Allombert (ballombe at debian.org) kirjoitti:
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 09:41:24AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 unreproducible moreinfo
>
> > I don't see any nvram entry being added when a kernel is added. Please
> > provide the output of 'efibootmgr' before and after such instances.

$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,0006,0004,0005
Boot0000* Linux Boot Manager
HD(1,GPT,35eb03db-0ed1-4f05-990d-7ab901f6f682,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\systemd\systemd-bootx64.efi)
Boot0001* Debian
HD(1,GPT,35eb03db-0ed1-4f05-990d-7ab901f6f682,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFI\debian\shimx64.efi)5c004500460049005c00730079007300740065006d0064005c00730079007300740065006d0064002d0062006f006f0074007800360034002e0065006600690020005c003000
Boot0004* CD/DVD Drive
BBS(CDROM,,0x0)414d474f414d4e4fb3000000010000006f00540053005300540063006f007200700020004300440044005600440057002000530048002d005300320032003300460000000501090003000000007fff040002010c00d041030a0000000001010600021f03120a000100ffff00007fff040001043e00ef47642dc93ba041ac194d51d01b4ce62000200020002000200020002000200020002000200020002000200020002000200020002000200000007fff0400414d424f
Boot0005  Hard Drive
BBS(HD,,0x0)414d474f414d4e4fb3000000010000007700540053002d00520044004600380020004300460020005400720061006e007300630065006e00640000000501090002000000007fff040002010c00d041030a0000000001010600001d0305060001000305060006000305060001007fff040001043e00ef47642dc93ba041ac194d51d01b4ce6540053002d00520044004600380020004300460020005400720061006e007300630065006e00640000007fff0400414d424f414d4e4fbb000000010000007f00540053002d00520044004600380020005300440020005400720061006e007300630065006e00640000000501090002000000007fff040002010c00d041030a0000000001010600001d03050600010003050600060003050600010003020800000001007fff040001043e00ef47642dc93ba041ac194d51d01b4ce6540053002d00520044004600380020005300440020005400720061006e007300630065006e00640000007fff0400414d424f414d4e4fbb000000010000007f00540053002d00520044004600380020004d00530020005400720061006e007300630065006e00640000000501090002000000007fff040002010c00d041030a0000000001010600001d03050600010003050600060003050600010003020800000002007fff040001043e00ef47642dc93ba041ac194d51d01b4ce6540053002d00520044004600380020004d00530020005400720061006e007300630065006e00640000007fff0400414d424f414d4e4fad000000010000006f005700440043002000570044003300320030003000410041004b0058002d0032003200310043004100310000000501090002000000007fff040002010c00d041030a0000000001010600021f03120a000200ffff00007fff040001043e00ef47642dc93ba041ac194d51d01b4ce62000200020002000570020002d00440043005700590041004b00550037005000360036003800310000007fff0400414d424f414d4e4fad000000010000006f00570044004300200057004400370035003000300041004100430053002d0030003000440036004200310000000501090002000000007fff040002010c00d041030a0000000001010600021f03120a000300ffff00007fff040001043e00ef47642dc93ba041ac194d51d01b4ce62000200020002000570020002d00440043005700550041003000350037003100320038003700360000007fff0400414d424f
Boot0006* UEFI OS
HD(1,GPT,35eb03db-0ed1-4f05-990d-7ab901f6f682,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)

Something added entries called Debian and Linux Boot Manager. Before
that with GRUB-EFI the host booted just fine using the firmware's
generic UEFI OS entry.

Martin-Éric