Devido à presença de vários bugs de firmware em que a remoção variáveis UEFI não padrão fazem com que o firmware do sistema falhe no POST, arquivos efivarfs que não são variáveis padronizadas bem conhecidas criado como arquivos imutáveis.
Isso pode ser verificado e alterado com os comandos lsattr e chattr .
Por exemplo:
root@hi12:/tmp/test# hexdump -C out
00000000 07 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 |........|
00000008
root@hi12:/tmp/test# cp out /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
cp: cannot create regular file '/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23': Operation not permitted
root@hi12:/tmp/test# lsattr /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
----i-------------- /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
root@hi12:/tmp/test# chattr -i /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
root@hi12:/tmp/test# lsattr /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
------------------- /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
root@hi12:/tmp/test# cp out /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
root@hi12:/tmp/test# chattr +i /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
root@hi12:/tmp/test# lsattr /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
----i-------------- /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/BootSelectVariable-944fb13b-773f-4cbb-9c6f-326cebde4c23
root@hi12:/tmp/test#