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wiki / boot / efistub                                             

Edited () at 2020-10-03 by Dylan Araps


EFISTUB [0]
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The Linux kernel has the ability to act as an EFI executable which simplifies
the boot process by removing the need for a bootloader.


Prerequisites
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Begin by first verifying that you have efibootmgr installed:

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                              |
|   $ kiss b efibootmgr && kiss i efibootmgr                                   |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The kernel must be configured to support acting as an EFISTUB.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                              |
|   CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y                                                          |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The UEFI variables must be mounted.

See: @/efivarfs

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                              |
|   TIP: Keep your kernel's name as 'vmlinuz' to avoid having to update the    |
|        EFI entries with each kernel update.                                  |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


Create an UEFI boot entry
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Use the following command to create a boot entry. Replace /dev/sdXN with your
EFI system partition and /dev/sdYM with your root partition. Check to see that
the entry was added with 'efibootmgr --verbose'.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                              |
|   $ efibootmgr \                                                             |
|         --create \                                                           |
|         --disk     /dev/sdX \                                                |
|         --part     N \                                                       |
|         --label    KISS \                                                    |
|         --loader   /vmlinuz \                                                |
|         --unicode  'root=/dev/sdYM' \                                        |
|         --verbose                                                            |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The root partition can also be referred to by its partition UUID which can be
found using blkid.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                              |
|   --unicode 'root=PARTUUID=aaaaaaaa-aaaa-4aaa-aaa-aaaaaaaaaaaa'              |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The above command, the --unicode option specifies the parameters passed to the
kernel. If you require other parameters to boot your system, pass them here.


Removing a UEFI boot entry
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To remove an entry, find your entry's boot number using 'efibootmgr --verbose'
and run the following command.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                              |
|   $ efibootmgr --bootnum XXXX --delete-bootnum                               |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


References
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