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digitron64

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Finally had to resort to posting for assistance on this site. I have followed instructions to install El Capitan on a UEFI based system via GPT. I have since reformatted the hard drive on a Dell Inspiron 17R N7110 laptop running an Intel 2430M processor with 8GB of DDR3 memory. I have boot menu entries that I cannot remove no matter what I do. The boot entries are:

Clover start boot.efi at El Capitan
Clover start boot.efi at Recovery HD
Clover start boot.efe at El Capitan
Clover start boot.efi at Recovery HD
CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
Hard Drive
Removable Drive
eSata
Network
Windows Boot Manager
Diagnostics

Yes. The entries show twice. I am with the impression, that the entries are what's preventing me from accessing the BIOS.

And if anyone is wondering. I had flashed the system with an unlocked bios from bios-mods.com. It works great for allowing UEFI support, and GPT partitions. Since I can't get into the bios, I have to resort to standard MBR.

I have tried to reinstall the clover bootloader (legacy) and ran various commands like fsck -fy, bcfg boot dump followed by bcfg boot rm ##, etc. I have also recreated the EFI partition (200MB, Fat32, copied the Clover folder) ran the bcfg commands again and nothing seems to work to remove the EFI entries.

Currently I get a blank screen when I press F2 to enter the Bios. The computer is functional otherwise.

I am at wits end and am in need of assistance. Thank you to anyone and everyone for your help.
 
digitron64 said:
Finally had to resort to posting for assistance on this site. I have followed instructions to install El Capitan on a UEFI based system via GPT. I have since reformatted the hard drive on a Dell Inspiron 17R N7110 laptop running an Intel 2430M processor with 8GB of DDR3 memory. I have boot menu entries that I cannot remove no matter what I do. The boot entries are:

Clover start boot.efi at El Capitan
Clover start boot.efi at Recovery HD
Clover start boot.efe at El Capitan
Clover start boot.efi at Recovery HD
CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
Hard Drive
Removable Drive
eSata
Network
Windows Boot Manager
Diagnostics

Yes. The entries show twice. I am with the impression, that the entries are what's preventing me from accessing the BIOS.

And if anyone is wondering. I had flashed the system with an unlocked bios from bios-mods.com. It works great for allowing UEFI support, and GPT partitions. Since I can't get into the bios, I have to resort to standard MBR.

I have tried to reinstall the clover bootloader (legacy) and ran various commands like fsck -fy, bcfg boot dump followed by bcfg boot rm ##, etc. I have also recreated the EFI partition (200MB, Fat32, copied the Clover folder) ran the bcfg commands again and nothing seems to work to remove the EFI entries.

Currently I get a blank screen when I press F2 to enter the Bios. The computer is functional otherwise.

I am at wits end and am in need of assistance. Thank you to anyone and everyone for your help.
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Boot entries can be edited with 'efibootmgr' in Linux.
 
Thank you for your reply. I don't have linux installed on my system. However, I have a LiveCD for Opensuse 12.3. Is there a LiveCD available with efibootmgr that I can download and use? Or can you point me to the repository to configure so I can download via Opensuse? Thanks again for your help.
 
digitron64 said:
Thank you for your reply. I don't have linux installed on my system. However, I have a LiveCD for Opensuse 12.3. Is there a LiveCD available with efibootmgr that I can download and use? Or can you point me to the repository to configure so I can download via Opensuse? Thanks again for your help.
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I always use an Ubuntu USB. Install efibootmgr with apt-get.

More info in the guide, post #2: http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...de-booting-os-x-installer-laptops-clover.html
 
Ok. I followed your instruction to run efibootmgr. However, when I run efibootmgr I get "fatal: couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables." Remember, I can't get into the BIOS to enable UEFI boot. I have the UNIBEAST usb still available that I used to initially install El Capitan but I can't boot into it with UEFI disabled in the BIOS. How can I remove the Boot menu entries in legacy mode? As always, your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
 
digitron64 said:
Ok. I followed your instruction to run efibootmgr. However, when I run efibootmgr I get "fatal: couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables."
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Are you using Ubuntu?
 
yes. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
 
Ok. I'll download the latest version and post my results. Thank you.
 
Ok. I ran Ubuntu 15.10 and installed efibootmgr. I run efibootmgr using sudo efibootmgr, and I get "EFI variables are not supported on this system" error.
 
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