Automatic creation of UEFI partitions on SSD with Fedora installed

asked 2019-04-17 10:28:20 -0600

skhds
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I'm not sure what causes this, but when I try to select Fedora for booting at BIOS boot selection (F12 at BIOS), I see many numbers of UEFI partitions on the disk that Fedora is installed, and the number of them keeps growing.

I'm unsure of how to show this problem to this question forum though (other than using my phone camera, which I don't think would be too pretty). Can anyone give me suggestions for this, please?

Also, at the start of Fedora boot, for some reason the window partition does not show, although I'm unsure if this case is related..

Sorry that I couldn't show enough information here, I just didn't know how to ask

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Go ahead with the phone camera, and post the images up at imgur.com then edit the question and link to those pictures.

K7AAY ( 2019-04-17 15:37:54 -0600 )edit

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answered 2019-04-17 19:44:20 -0600

cmurf
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updated 2019-04-17 19:46:33 -0600

This sounds like a firmware bug, related to NVRAM garbage collection. I think shim tries to work around this for some machines, so it could be that shim needs to be extended. But I would look first at getting the system firmware updated with a manufacturer supplied update. In the meantime what do you get for

rpm -qa | grep grub2-efi
rpm -qa | grep shim
efibootmgr -v

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@cmurf Have a nice day.,,,I agree...may be it's a happen....to show the problem....!! also, it's a need do check uefi status or configuration in bios

simmon ( 2019-04-18 11:57:26 -0600 )edit

sorry I haven't been able to respond immediately, I'll try that when I get home..

skhds ( 2019-04-18 21:20:06 -0600 )edit

the output to the commands from your post gives me these : https://imgur.com/CcosL55

skhds ( 2019-04-20 01:12:21 -0600 )edit

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A simple BIOS update wiped out all the useless partitions after all, thank you very much!

skhds ( 2019-04-20 02:13:10 -0600 )edit

great!!...have a nice day!!

simmon ( 2019-04-20 02:15:57 -0600 )edit

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answered 2019-04-18 11:35:15 -0600

spCl
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updated 2019-04-18 11:35:35 -0600

I have a similar problem:

https://ibb.co/3yFFyvT

I installed Fedora once, and it updated automatically after. I don't know how to solve this.

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No, I think that is the correct behaviour. They do that I think because upgrades might cause regression, so they just give you options to fall back to earlier versions of the OS. My problem is that the window partition doesn't show up, and the BIOS boot partitions keeps on getting created for no reason (I'm talking about 10~20).

skhds ( 2019-04-18 21:23:49 -0600 )edit

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