Re: efibootmgr ignores \'s

On 11/22/2013 11:22 AM, Chris Murphy issued this missive: > When anaconda issues the command (according to program.log): > > efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sda -p 4 -l \EFI\fedora\shim.efi > > efbootmgr -v reports the entry as: > > Boot0000* Fedora HD(4,3885800,64000,46559d7b-e280-468b-a298-0dafbc4d1575)File(\EFI\fedora\shim.efi) > > If I remove that entry, and then use the identical command as root: > > efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sda -p 4 -l \EFI\fedora\shim.efi Try: efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sda -p 4 -l \\EFI\\fedora\\shim.efi The reason being that you're still in a shell and "\E" is the same as "E". To insert an explicit backslash, you have to double it ("\\").