Installation of SLES 15 SP3 on eMMC media shows an exit code: 5 error when saving the bootloader

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3

Situation

When installing SLES 15 SP3 on an eMMC device, YaST2 will show an popup error when finishing the bootloader installation:

Execution of command "[["/usr/sbin/shim-install", "--config-file=/boot/grub2/grub.cfg"]]" failed.
Exit code: 5
Error output: Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Could not prepare Boot variable: Success

This error is also reported in /var/log/YaST2/y2log of the installation environment.

Resolution

Please download the Quarterly Update 1 release of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 ISO from the SUSE Customer Center and use this for installation. It contains an update of libefivar1 to version 37-6.12.1 which contains the necessary fix to address this.

Cause

A problem with parsing the sysfs settings for eMMC devices.

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