Previous OS entries remain in BIOS

Framework Laptop 13
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I’m a bit of a distro hopper, though Arch remains my consistent day-to-day distro of choice. I notice that old entries remain in the BIOS with no way to remove them that I can see. The only option I see is to disable them (which I do). Am I missing something?

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You should be able to remove them with efibootmgr, list all entries with:

> efibootmgr -u

BootOrder: 0001,0003,0000,0004
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0001* Fedora
Boot0003* opensuse-secureboot
Boot0004* UEFI:CD/DVD Drive
(abbreviated output)

Note the number next to “Boot” of the entry you want to delete and then execute this command:

sudo efibootmgr -b 0000 -B

In this example, this would delete the “Windows Boot Manager”.

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13th Gen, the Bios is InsydeH2O v IFR30.03.05

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That works pretty well except openSuse keeps coming back from the dead.

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Does openSUSE maybe use the same EFI system partition that your Arch install uses? That way it might still be detected and re-added automatically at boot.

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That makes sense, I will figure out how to fix that. Thank you for your help!

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That was the solution: remove the directory from the EFI partition. Thank you again for answering my question!

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Glad I could help!