Make tumbleweed hard disk bootable and grub question

I believe what you’re looking at is a list of items that your NVRAM contains. If you check back to my second thread post here (#4) you’ll see I then raised the possibility of limited NVRAM.

# df /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
df: no file systems processed
#

???

Too late to edit. 10 minutes not long enough.

# inxi -S
System:
  Host: ab250 Kernel: 6.6.46-1-longterm arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Console: pty pts/0 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240818
# ls -Gg /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ | wc -l
98
# df /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
df: no file systems processed
#

No comprende. :frowning:

I suspect its history from windows, but I could be wrong.
I am already googling what happens if you delete all content.

What I am gonna try:

First let’s see which one I can get rid off, Boot0010* or Boot0011*

Then copy this file so that I have a backup.

Then see what happens if I delete all but the then 3 left Boot00**

Also going to look at leap /sys/firmware/efi/efivars.

I have not found yet how this works on windows, does that have an efivar folder too and were is it?

We already know 0000 is Windows, 0010 is TW and 0011 is Leap. I would delete others first, to free space for writing NVRAM. The question is how?

The real issue is that /sys/firmware/efi/efivars gets filled up with dumps like dump-type0-1-1-1637684069-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
They don’t belong there. And by opening this directory with a filemanger you will also see that they are the biggest files with some kB. All other entries in this directory are valid and belong there including the boot entries which are only some B big.

The dumps do not belong there. You need to find out what creates the dumps and stop the creation.

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Thank you, I had found that page, but I lack the real understanding of this subject to determine what page to use. :slightly_smiling_face:

They most certainly do. They are created by Linux kernel to persistently store crash information so it survives across reboot. They are not intended to stay there forever - something (e.g. systemd-pstore.service) is expected to fetch them on next reboot and move into more appropriate place.

Timestamps on these files are between 23rd and 30th of November, 2021. Of course, one could look into crash information in these files, but I doubt it would be of much use three years later.

SUSE disabled efi_pstore backend by default in 2022.

I had a look at my leap install.

It seems /sys/firmware/efi/ has two folders efivars and vars (dolphin)
On tumbleweed I do not see the vars folder.

This is from tumbleweed:

guus@localhost:~> su
Wachtwoord: 
localhost:/home/guus # ls
Afbeeldingen  .bash_history  .bashrc  bin  Bureaublad  .cache  .config  Documenten  Downloads  .emacs  .gtkrc-2.0  .i18n  .inputrc  .local  .mozilla  Muziek  Openbaar  .profile  Sjablonen  .steam  .steampath  .steampid  Video's  Wiet  .wine  .xim.template
localhost:/home/guus # ..
localhost:/home # ..
localhost:/ # ls
bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lib64  mnt  opt  proc  root  run  sbin  .snapshots  srv  sys  tmp  usr  var
localhost:/ # cd sys
localhost:/sys # ls
block  bus  class  dev  devices  firmware  fs  hypervisor  kernel  module  power
localhost:/sys # cd firmware
localhost:/sys/firmware # ls
acpi  dmi  efi  memmap
localhost:/sys/firmware # cd efi
localhost:/sys/firmware/efi # ls
config_table  efivars  esrt  fw_platform_size  fw_vendor  runtime  runtime-map  systab
localhost:/sys/firmware/efi # 

Questions:

So I am dragging along some history it seems?
Do I manual have to delete the dumpfiles as root ?
Found a command rm *, but I am pretty sure I should not use * because the it will delete all files, not just the dumpfiles?

vars and efivars, both seems to have almost the same content.

I will now reboot again to Leap and show the folders, with the commandline from leap.

From leap:

guus@localhost:~> su
Wachtwoord:
localhost:/home/guus # ..
localhost:/home # ls
guus  lost+found  .Trash-1000
localhost:/home # ..
localhost:/ # ls
bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lib64  lost+found  mnt  opt  proc  root  run  sbin  selinux  srv  sys  tmp  usr  var
localhost:/ # cd sys
localhost:/sys # ls
block  bus  class  dev  devices  firmware  fs  hypervisor  kernel  module  power
localhost:/sys # cd firmware
localhost:/sys/firmware # ls
acpi  dmi  efi  memmap
localhost:/sys/firmware # cd efi
localhost:/sys/firmware/efi # ls
config_table  efivars  esrt  fw_platform_size  fw_vendor  runtime  runtime-map  secret-key  systab  vars
localhost:/sys/firmware/efi # 

The content of var:

localhost:/sys/firmware/efi/vars # ls
AMD_PBS_SETUP-a339d746-f678-49b3-9fc7-54ce0f9df226                            dump-type0-13-2-1638025864-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0  dump-type0-6-1-1638025838-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
AMD_RAID-fe26a894-d199-47d4-8afa-070e3d54ba86                                 dump-type0-13-2-1638288071-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0  dump-type0-6-1-1638280025-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
AmdSetup-3a997502-647a-4c82-998e-52ef9486a247                                 dump-type0-13-2-1638289314-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0  dump-type0-6-1-1638289310-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
AmiHardwareSignatureSetupUpdateCountVar-81c76078-bfde-4368-9790-570914c01a65  dump-type0-13-3-1638288446-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0  dump-type0-6-1-1639935441-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
AMITCGPPIVAR-a8a2093b-fefa-43c1-8e62-ce526847265e                             dump-type0-14-1-1637684072-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0  dump-type0-6-1-1647270393-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
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ASR_USER_DEF_VER-8f132913-6907-4192-a227-6cbcd7a50e6c                         dump-type0-14-1-1638025838-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0  dump-type0-6-2-1638025864-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
ASR_USER_DEF_VER-ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9                         dump-type0-14-1-1638280025-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0  dump-type0-6-2-1638288071-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
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Boot0011-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c                                 dump-type0-14-2-1638288071-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0  dump-type0-7-1-1637860615-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
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Content of efivars and var look almost the same, but it seems var is the original folder, atleast on leap.

I want to try to delete all dumpfiles.

But there are so many, already 179 on tumbleweed.

With rm I seem to have to delete them one by one? :slightly_frowning_face:

There must be an easier way ?

rm -f file*dump ?

Use a wildcard. You can use
sudo rm dump-type0-*

This will delete all files which start with dump-type0-xxxxxxxx

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That worked like a charm it seems, thank you.

Now gonna do the same on leap, and I am praying they wont return after a reboot.

guus@localhost:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars> sudo df /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
Bestandssysteem 1K-blokken Gebruikt Beschikbaar Geb% Aangekoppeld op
efivarfs               128       10         114   9% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
guus@localhost:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars> 

:slightly_smiling_face:

Fingers crossed… Down to 9%.
Now will do the same on leap.

If they come back after reboot, you also need to delete the same files in /sys/firmware/efi/vars

I know there is on leap a vars and efivars folder, that why I was planning already to do this in both folders.(delete the dump files)
Thumbleweed only seems to have a efivars folder. :slight_smile:

I did a reboot and started Leap.

To my surprise those dumpfiles, were already gone on Leap. (from var and efivar)

Then I started Tumbleweed and did this:

guus@localhost:~> LANG=C
guus@localhost:~> sudo df /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
efivarfs             128    10       114   9% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
guus@localhost:~> 

omg, do we have a winner?

Almost can’t believe it. :joy:

For now I am gonna thank everybody for their help.

Now starting YAST, bootloader, should work again.

A motherboard died last week. I just installed its (used) replacement. All working good, but inexplicable output from df /sys/firmware/efi/efivars on this one too, like my other:

ab85m:/sys/firmware/efi # cd /sys/firmware/efi/
ab85m:/sys/firmware/efi # ls -l
total 0
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Sep  8 13:02 config_table
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 Sep  8 09:01 efivars
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    0 Sep  8 13:02 esrt
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Sep  8 13:02 fw_platform_size
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Sep  8 13:02 fw_vendor
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Sep  8 13:02 runtime
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root    0 Sep  8 13:02 runtime-map
-r--------  1 root root 4096 Sep  8 13:02 systab
ab85m:/sys/firmware/efi # cd efivars
ab85m:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars # ls -l | wc
    101     902    9206
ab85m:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars # df /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
df: no file systems processed
ab85m:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars #

I can only guess , but are you dual booting with Windows?
Maybe this only applies to dualboot machines?

Dual means exactly 2. Multboot means any number greater than 1, thus subsumes dual. I multiboot all, but none with UEFI have any version of Windows.

Problem found. Command inexplicably only works as non-root user:

test@ab85m:~> df /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
efivarfs             128   103        21  84% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
test@ab85m:~>

I tested and found same limitation in Leap, Fedora and Debian, on 3 different PCs.

I cannot reproduce it.