How to use hw vendor EFI diagnostics ?

[Alain D D Williams]

I just got myself a new laptop - the old one broke.
It is an HP stream, I wiped MS Windows and installed Linux Mint 21.

The machine came with some nice hardware diagnostics, written by/for HP. These
could be run without booting MS Windows. I would like to have the ability to
run these as they know more about the laptop's hardware than what is installed
from Mint -- just some generic memory test.

I did copy the EFI before it was overwritten by the Linux installation.

How do I integrate the HP diagnostics into the current EFI ?

Thanks in advance.

This is what there is now:
/boot/efi/
/boot/efi/EFI
/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu
/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/BOOTX64.CSV
/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/fbx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/mmx64.efi

This is what I have preserved from before Linux install:

System Volume Information
EFI
EFI/HP
EFI/HP/BIOS
EFI/HP/BIOS/Current
EFI/HP/BIOS/Current/085B5.bin
EFI/HP/BIOS/Current/085B5.s12
EFI/HP/BIOS/Current/085B5.sig
EFI/HP/BIOS/Previous
EFI/HP/BIOS/New
EFI/HP/HP Support Framework
EFI/HP/HP Support Framework/Logs
EFI/HP/HP Support Framework/Logs/1275192963.xml
EFI/HP/dip.zip
EFI/HP/SystemDiags
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/EADB.json
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SystemDiags.ini
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/HpHwDiagsSnapshot.cee
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/LICENCE.txt
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/CryptRSA.efi
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SysDiags.s09
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SystemDiags-5CD2301RGW.html
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SysDiags.efi
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/TestCoverage.json
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SysDiags.s14
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/DI.efi
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SysDiags.s12
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SystemDiags.log
EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SystemDiagsCeeHistory.log
EFI/HP/DI.efi
EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate
EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate/BiosMgmt.s12
EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate/CryptRSA.efi
EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate/BiosMgmt.s14
EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate/BiosMgmt.efi
EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate/BiosMgmt.s09

EFI/Boot
EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

There is also some MS stuff (I'm just listing top level directories, 185 in total):
EFI/Microsoft
EFI/Microsoft/Recovery
EFI/Microsoft/Boot

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[hede]

Am 11.10.2022 11:38, schrieb Alain D D Williams:
> How do I integrate the HP diagnostics into the current EFI ?

It should be fine to copy the files to the EFI partition (if not already
there) and add some boot entry via efibootmgr (if not already present).

Running efibootmgr (as root) without options will tell you if there are
already old entries. If there's an entry for HP diagnostics, "efibootmgr
-v" will show you details.

You can add a new one via:

efibootmgr --create --disk [EFItargetDisk] --part [partNumber] --label
"HP diagnostics" --loader \\EFI\\[targetEXE].efi

For further help see man page of efibootmgr. There are also many blog
posts regarding efibootmgr in the internet.

For the correct targetEXE in your case, I do not know which one of the
named efi files is the right one. Either wait for some other answer
here, search the internet for this specific question or (maybe) some
try&error will do it.

regards
hede