How to Remove Old EFI Boot Entries in Linux

If you have some boot entries from prior installs that are no longer on your computer, this video will show you how to remove them using Efibootmgr in Linux.

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[mohammadsamir]

At first, you seemed slow, after some time, you are the best one to follow. I want to give you a huge thanks 👍👍

[RobinJusteEmery]

Awesome walkthru. I've now fully removed Manjaro and Archlabs from my boot manager. Thank you!

[barbosathiag_]

I tried so many times before, watching others videos and didn't work. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[louisshade]

still a great video even after all these years thank u for making this u really helped

[DonaldWyman]

Thank you so much for this I had like 5 or 6 entries for pop_os on my boot menu now I am down to 1 pop_os, windows and my drives looks so much better now.

[marcuscantwell]

Just wanted to drop a note to say thanks for clear and concise video! Worked great!

[the_wanderering_stranger]

Mate u just solved my problem. It had been bugging me for days.😕

[PaulD-jico]

Thanks, I'm new in the Linux world and had installed POP_OS several times and my bootmenu had too much entries :) now its clean again.

[GregsonJamesMedel]

Hi I'm using elementary os and I got this error "EFI variables are not supported on this system" when I execute the sudo efibootmgr. Do you have any idea how to fix this?

[markhodge]

Thank you for sharing this. The only time I haven't had this problem is when I wasn't dual booting. If I leave Windows installed and reinstall a Linux distro, the boot entries keep piling up. If I only install Windows or Linux, all the extras are gone. I wonder why no one has shared this before? Thanks again.

[strelokzero]

You hairy genius of a man! you're damn right I am going to buy you a coffee, even if I have only a few pounds left

[iamwatchingthisvid.]

after I reboot my pc and run the sudo eefibootmgr the unused windows boot managr and Fedora are still there... am I missing some last steps?

[JetPilot]

"EFI variables are not supported on this system" is what I get after typing "sudo efibootmgr". Launched Linux mint from USB stick. My pc only has Windows 10 and Linux Mint has been deleted. Everything works fine but I want to get rid of Ubuntu in BIOS boot menu

[kristiantorres]

Hello. Thank you for the video. I want to know if there is something wrong with having old boot options in the boot menu. Does it cause any damage at all? Even if it is not the first boot option...what is the down side of having an "unwanted" boot entry? Thanks!

[yonnieyonsta]

Got an HP Elite 8200, I had Fedora on it. Now I want to put FreeBSD on it and cannot, reason unknown. The booting still sees the Fedora that isn't there, gets partway into the boot process of the FreeBSD and hangs, also cannot re-install Fedora. I can boot LinuxMint, but following your instructions, LM does not display a boot list to delete an entry

[unclefester]

Thank You... I had two Fedora entries. Only one was valid. I have a question.... Why do some Distros put their name in the F11 Boot menu - while Other Distros just leave the default drive name ? I also wish that Linux ... seems like they all will snoop around the entire computer to find things that are operating systems and put it into the boot menu of choices. Why don't they all just mind their own business.

[jlmarte]

Just the instructions I was looking for... Thank you!

[frederickamenyo]

After delete a boot order which is 0003 and i restarted, i went into my boot and it was still there. I ran the command again and i got a second boot order of 0004. Can you please help

[rokfam]

Thank you, friend. you explained this very well.

[anonymous]

what program do you use for intro and closing videos?