Source: debian-installer Version: 20230607+deb12u6 Severity: wishlist This is an RFC whether it would be possible to include UEFI shell into the debian installer media. I understand that it won't work with SecureBoot, however under some obscure cases UEFI shell is the only (or the easiest) way to perform some actions.
For example, on some of old Qualcomm-based laptops EFI vars are not accessible or are read-only. Thus it is not possible to setup boot configuration from the running Linux configuration. Being able to boot to the shell allows us to fix such issues. With the UEFI shell being available as the Debian package it should be pretty simple to include it into the generated D-I media. Having it under the Advanced / Export options would mean that it should not be used by default, still providing a way to rescue some of the issues. WDYT? -- With best wishes Dmitry -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Kernel: Linux 6.10.0-test-dp+ (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
