Funnily enough, efibootmgr 18-1:

$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0004,0002,0003,0007,0000
Boot0000* Enter Setup FvVol(8063c21a-8e58-4576-95ce-089e87975d23)/FvFile(462caa21-7614-4503-836e-8ab6f4662331)
Boot0001* Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid with Linux 6.6.9-amd64 HD(1,GPT,b56e9130-b36e-4b7b-9abf-6fe3cb9606c7,0x800,0x79800)/File(\KLAPKI\DD956699294C45E99FFE000DF2D986D6\6.6.9-AMD64\VMLINUZ-6.6.9-AMD64)
69006e0069007400720064003d005c006b006c00610070006b0069005c00640064003900350036003600390039003200390034006300340035006500390039006600660065003000300030006400660032006400390038003600640036005c0036002e0036002e0039002d0061006d006400360034005c0069006e006900740
0720064002e0069006d0067002d0036002e0036002e0039002d0061006d00640036003400200072006f006f0074003d007a00660073003a004100550054004f00200072006500730075006d0065003d0050004100520054004c004100420045004c003d006300680072007500730074002d007300770061007000200069006e
00740065006c005f0069006f006d006d0075003d006f006e002000730079007300630061006c006c002e007800330032003d007900200071007500690065007400
Boot0002* eMMC Device PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/eMMC(0)/Ctrl(0x0){auto_created_boot_option}
Boot0003* UEFI Shell FvVol(8063c21a-8e58-4576-95ce-089e87975d23)/FvFile(7c04a583-9e3e-4f1c-ad65-e05268d0b4d1)
Boot0004* Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid with Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (verbose debug) HD(1,GPT,b56e9130-b36e-4b7b-9abf-6fe3cb9606c7,0x800,0x79800)/File(\CHRUST\6.6.9-AMD64\VMLINUZ-6.6.9-AMD64)
69006e0069007400720064003d005c006b006c00610070006b0069005c00640064003900350036003600390039003200390034006300340035006500390039006600660065003000300030006400660032006400390038003600640036005c0036002e0036002e0039002d0061006d006400360034005c0069006e006900740
0720064002e0069006d0067002d0036002e0036002e0039002d0061006d00640036003400200072006f006f0074003d007a00660073003a004100550054004f00200072006500730075006d0065003d0050004100520054004c004100420045004c003d006300680072007500730074002d007300770061007000200069006e
00740065006c005f0069006f006d006d0075003d006f006e002000730079007300630061006c006c002e007800330032003d007900200076006500720062006f0073006500200064006500620075006700
Boot0007* debian HD(2,GPT,4ad22847-4499-314f-8d8f-866509d94fa6,0x1000,0xff800)/File(\EFI\debian\shimx64.efi)

$ efibootmgr -u
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0004,0002,0003,0007,0000
Boot0000* Enter Setup FvVol(8063c21a-8e58-4576-95ce-089e87975d23)/FvFile(462caa21-7614-4503-836e-8ab6f4662331)
Boot0001* Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid with Linux 6.6.9-amd64 HD(1,GPT,b56e9130-b36e-4b7b-9abf-6fe3cb9606c7,0x800,0x79800)/File(\KLAPKI\DD956699294C45E99FFE000DF2D986D6\6.6.9-AMD64\VMLINUZ-6.6.9-AMD64)initrd=\klapki\dd956699294c45e99ffe000df2d986d6\6.6.
9-amd64\initrd.img-6.6.9-amd64 root=zfs:AUTO resume=PARTLABEL=chrust-swap intel_iommu=on syscall.x32=y quiet
Boot0002* eMMC Device PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/eMMC(0)/Ctrl(0x0)걎脈鼑䵙຅᫢ⱒ뉙
Boot0003* UEFI Shell FvVol(8063c21a-8e58-4576-95ce-089e87975d23)/FvFile(7c04a583-9e3e-4f1c-ad65-e05268d0b4d1)
Boot0004* Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid with Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (verbose debug) HD(1,GPT,b56e9130-b36e-4b7b-9abf-6fe3cb9606c7,0x800,0x79800)/File(\CHRUST\6.6.9-AMD64\VMLINUZ-6.6.9-AMD64)initrd=\klapki\dd956699294c45e99ffe000df2d986d6\6.6.9-amd64\initrd.
img-6.6.9-amd64 root=zfs:AUTO resume=PARTLABEL=chrust-swap intel_iommu=on syscall.x32=y verbose debug
Boot0007* debian HD(2,GPT,4ad22847-4499-314f-8d8f-866509d94fa6,0x1000,0xff800)/File(\EFI\debian\shimx64.efi)

Note that Boot0002 turned from {auto_created_boot_option} to 걎脈鼑䵙຅᫢ⱒ뉙.

I can see that Boot0007 is latin in both cases,
but "interpret file paths as text IFF they have »shim« in there" is ass.

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Control: tags -1 + patch

On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 04:17:41PM +0200, Fab Stz wrote:

You might also be interested in this commit

https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/commit/ e8ce9fecebd15adb4c60a0678d4c417afe06dde4

You're right. That yielded a simple patch
https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/pull/224
that makes
$ ./src/efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0004,0002,0003,0007,0000
Boot0000* Enter Setup FvVol(8063c21a-8e58-4576-95ce-089e87975d23)/FvFile(462caa21-7614-4503-836e-8ab6f4662331)
Boot0001* Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid with Linux 6.6.9-amd64 HD(1,GPT,b56e9130-b36e-4b7b-9abf-6fe3cb9606c7,0x800,0x79800)/File(\KLAPKI\DD956699294C45E99FFE000DF2D986D6\6.6.9-AMD64\VMLINUZ-6.6.9-AMD64) File(.initrd=\klapki\
dd956699294c45e99ffe000df2d986d6\6.6.9-amd64\initrd.img-6.6.9-amd64 root=zfs:AUTO resume=PARTLABEL=chrust-swap intel_iommu=on syscall.x32=y quiet)
Boot0002* eMMC Device PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/eMMC(0)/Ctrl(0x0){auto_created_boot_option}
Boot0003* UEFI Shell FvVol(8063c21a-8e58-4576-95ce-089e87975d23)/FvFile(7c04a583-9e3e-4f1c-ad65-e05268d0b4d1)
Boot0004* Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid with Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (verbose debug) HD(1,GPT,b56e9130-b36e-4b7b-9abf-6fe3cb9606c7,0x800,0x79800)/File(\CHRUST\6.6.9-AMD64\VMLINUZ-6.6.9-AMD64) File(.initrd=\klapki\dd956699294c45e99ffe000df2d986d6\6.6.9-amd64\
initrd.img-6.6.9-amd64 root=zfs:AUTO resume=PARTLABEL=chrust-swap intel_iommu=on syscall.x32=y verbose debug)
Boot0007* debian HD(2,GPT,4ad22847-4499-314f-8d8f-866509d94fa6,0x1000,0xff800)/File(\EFI\debian\shimx64.efi)
which fixes it all.

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