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JoeMBlair

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From: Glasgow

Registered: 2014-09-12

Posts: 2

Gummiboot "Failed to create EFI Boot variable entry"

I'm trying to run the command "gummiboot install" but the error message "Failed to create EFI Boot variable entry: No space left on device". I did a bit of googling and that error seems to be related to nvram being full.
I did try deleting some unused entries using efibootmgr with the command

efibootmgr -B -b 000[number]

The ones that are left:

BootCurrent :0005
Timeout: 1 seconds
Boot0000* Corsair Slider 3.0 1.00
Boot0001* SATA2: Samsung SSD 840 PRO Seri
Boot0002
Boot0003
Boot0004* Built-in EFI Shell
Boot0005* UEFI: Corsair Slider 3.0 1.00
Boot0006
Boot0007
Boot0008

I'm trying to dual boot it with Windows 8 since there's still some games that aren't Linux compatible yet.

Last edited by JoeMBlair (2014-09-12 20:40:16)

CarlD

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From: London

Registered: 2013-11-23

Posts: 128

Re: Gummiboot "Failed to create EFI Boot variable entry"

I suspect it is due to your not specifying the UEFI partition via the --path= variable (where $esp is your UEFI partition):

# gummiboot --path=$esp install

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,532

Re: Gummiboot "Failed to create EFI Boot variable entry"

Better to check on the wiki

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint