Dear Maintainer,

While trying to rescue a system, I wanted to be able to list
and create EFI boot entries, but efibootmgr is not installed
in the debian-installer image.

I think that the capability of manipulating the EFI boot
entries from the installer system is a good thing to have.

Hi Cyprien,

Cyprien Laplace <cyprien@cypou.net> (2021-09-19):

At least for systems I wanted to rescue, it was very likely I had to fix
something inside the / and/or /boot and/or /boot/efi partitions, so
mounting all the things©®™ (as prompted for by the installer in rescue
mode once you pick a root filesystem) is likely to be a good idea, and
you can then use efibootmgr from within /target (asking for a shell in
the context of the installed system as opposed to the context of the
installer system).

Doing that would work with all d-i versions, without waiting for a
possible efibootmgr-udeb.


Cheers,