Talk: Merely booting Fedora 42 Live media adds a “Fedora” entry to the UEFI boot menu

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Please see the Common Issue for solution/workarounds:

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Ignore the noise, Fedora had nothing to do with it, this board just chose today to die.

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After reading the post I still don’t understand the fix, are images being rebuild after the fix?

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There will be unofficial image respins and I assume they will contain a fix in some time. It’s not clear yet whether Fedora provides some official respins.

I can try to clarify the description if you can explain what is currently unclear or confusing.

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I mean it’s pretty simple, there is fix upstream as far as I understand, but official website still host 1.1 version of the images, I would expect a re-spin and re-upload or a bump in a version, to clearly differentiate a fixed image from an affected image.

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It’s definitely simple to describe it :slight_smile: Given how much effort is going into testing the images, the publication tasks, and the fact that Fedora has never officially respun images before, it’s not a trivial process. But I’m not the one to decide this, I just descibe the actual state, and that’s in my previous reply.

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Is it possible to put a more prominent warning on the download pages for the live ISOs?

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That might be a good call.
@mattdm Do you know whether something is being done in this regard?

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I just did a clean install of Fedora 42 Gnome workstation and ran efibootmgr but I’m unsure IF or which entry I’m supposed to delete and how. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

scott@fedora:~$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* Fedora	HD(1,GPT,819b074f-bd4a-4de0-a4fb-575d1d5fe246,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi
Boot0001* Unknown Device: 	HD(1,GPT,819b074f-bd4a-4de0-a4fb-575d1d5fe246,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI\fedora\shim.efiRC
Boot2001* EFI USB Device	RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM	RC
Boot2003* EFI Network	RC

scott@fedora:~$ lsblk -o +label,partuuid
NAME MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS LABEL  PARTUUID
sr0   11:0    1 1024M  0 rom                     
zram0
     251:0    0    8G  0 disk [SWAP]      zram0  
nvme0n1
│    259:0    0  1.8T  0 disk                    
├─nvme0n1p1
│    259:1    0  600M  0 part /boot/efi          819b074f-bd4a-4de0-a4fb-575d1d5fe246
├─nvme0n1p2
│    259:2    0    1G  0 part /boot              e21088fc-e40b-4c39-86c0-b819d37cee1c
└─nvme0n1p3
     259:3    0  1.8T  0 part /home       fedora f24f2edd-1d4e-4b4e-9fad-0f57dcad732b
                              /
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You just have a single Fedora entry which corresponds to your installed system. There’s nothing to clean up.

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