Some UEFI firmware has a bug where it will generate duplicate boot entries if a new boot order is specified that leaves out existing entries ([1]). The workaround is to always pass all existing entries to the "efibootmgr -o" command, which is annoying when all you want to do is move a particular entry to the front. Peter Jones indicated in an email discussion that changing the default behaviour likely isn't a good idea, but that adding a --keep option to request this behaviour as part of the call to efibootmgr would be possible. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#You_have_failed_to_provide_all_existing_bootloader_entries_when_changing_the_boot_order
Experimental build with this feature: http://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/pjones/efibootmgr/
I'm not sure what the bug is here... we already knew about this EFI boot order misbehaviour, it was bug 1030612 which we fixed by always specifying all boot entries when we invoke efibootmgr -o.
That's why it's an RFE rather than a bug report - the idea is to encapsulate that workaround for buggy firmware as an efibootmgr option.
Okay, it's nice if efibootmgr can do this for us, but Beaker's snippets can't rely on newer efibootmgr features because we will need to support provisioning released distros for the foreseeable future.
Ah, the perils of private email threads - yes, the RFE is about making this easier for everyone else to workaround, even though we won't be able to rely on it in Beaker any time soon.
Ah, sorry! I completely missed the fact that this bug is against efibootmgr, not Beaker! Please ignore comments 2-5, sorry for the noise.
I think the current version has this as -C? Please file an issue on github if this is not the case.
pesign-0.112-4.fc25 mokutil-0.3.0-3.fc25 efibootmgr-13-2.fc25 efivar-28-1.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-650675f139
efibootmgr-13-2.fc25, efivar-28-1.fc25, mokutil-0.3.0-3.fc25, pesign-0.112-4.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-650675f139
efibootmgr-13-2.fc25, efivar-28-1.fc25, mokutil-0.3.0-3.fc25, pesign-0.112-4.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.