Comment # 13 on bug 1167933 from Joey Lee

(In reply to Neil Rickert from comment #0)
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> This is running in a KVM virtual machine (64-bit), where I am using the
> 32-bit efi firmware:
>   UEFI i686: /usr/share/qemu/ovmf-ia32-code.bin
> 
> Because this is not fully supported by openSUSE, I manually reinstall grub
> when I see that it has been updated.  That usually goes smoothly.  But this
> time, it produced an error:
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> # grub2-install --target=i386-efi
> Installing for i386-efi platform.
> Could not delete variable: Invalid argument
> grub2-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Block
> device required.
>  ---- end transcript ----
> 
> As a crosscheck, I ran "efibootmgr"
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> # efibootmgr
> BootCurrent: 0001
> Timeout: 0 seconds
> BootOrder: 0001,0000,0009
> Boot0000* UiApp
> Boot0001* opensuse
> Boot0009* EFI Internal Shell
>  ---- end transcript ----
> 
> The needed entry for "opensuse" is there.  However, it was already there
> previously, so it is possible that the call to "efibootmgr" failed.
> 
> The appropriate boot files were updated (in "/boot/grub2" and in
> "/boot/efi/EFI/opensuse".  And the system still boots.
> 
> I also updated Tumbleweed in a VM using x86_64 efi.  So I tried manually
> installing there (with "shim-install").  I did not see any comparable error
> message.
> 
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> Reproducible: Always

We do not support mixed mode ( 32-bit EFI firmware + 64-bit openSUSE )