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    [โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Deleting your efi partition doesn't brick your board. It just makes your disk unbootable, but you can always install another operating system and create a new efi partition.

    I think you're confusing with the special efivarfs file system that is mounted under /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. If you delete stuff under there, you're apparently going to have a bad time, because it directly deletes variables in your UEFI firmware which can prevent your system to POST.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    Ah yes. I always confuse them. I even though that what I wrote didn't make any sense since usually I know what an efi partition is. Thanks for correcting me