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[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can even delete your efi partition and brick your board

Edit: I mean delete your efivars

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 25 points 11 months ago

Deleting your efi partition doesn't brick your board. It just makes your disk unbootable, but you can always install another operating system and create a new efi partition.

I think you're confusing with the special efivarfs file system that is mounted under /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. If you delete stuff under there, you're apparently going to have a bad time, because it directly deletes variables in your UEFI firmware which can prevent your system to POST.

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Ah yes. I always confuse them. I even though that what I wrote didn't make any sense since usually I know what an efi partition is. Thanks for correcting me

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