<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> <!-- This file is part of systemd. systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. --> <refentry id="bootctl" conditional='ENABLE_EFI' xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <refentryinfo> <title>bootctl</title> <productname>systemd</productname> <authorgroup> <author> <contrib>Developer</contrib> <firstname>Kay</firstname> <surname>Sievers</surname> <email>kay@vrfy.org</email> </author> </authorgroup> </refentryinfo> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>bootctl</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>1</manvolnum> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>bootctl</refname> <refpurpose>Control the firmware and boot manager settings</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <cmdsynopsis> <command>bootctl <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>status</command> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>bootctl <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>update</command> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>bootctl <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>install</command> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>bootctl <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>remove</command> </cmdsynopsis> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <para><command>bootctl</command> checks, updates, installs or removes the boot loader from the current system.</para> <para><command>bootctl status</command> checks and prints the currently installed versions of the boot loader binaries and all current EFI boot variables.</para> <para><command>bootctl update</command> updates all installed versions of systemd-boot, if the current version is newer than the version installed in the EFI system partition. This also includes the EFI default/fallback loader at /EFI/Boot/boot*.efi. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is created if there is no current entry. The created entry will be added to the end of the boot order list.</para> <para><command>bootctl install</command> installs systemd-boot into the EFI system partition. A copy of systemd-boot will be stored as the EFI default/fallback loader at /EFI/Boot/boot*.efi. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is created and added to the top of the boot order list.</para> <para><command>bootctl remove</command> removes all installed versions of systemd-boot from the EFI system partition, and removes systemd-boot from the EFI boot variables.</para> <para>If no command is passed, <command>status</command> is implied.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Options</title> <para>The following options are understood:</para> <variablelist> <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" /> <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" /> <varlistentry> <term><option>--path</option></term> <listitem><para>Path to the EFI system partition. The default is /boot.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>--no-variables</option></term> <listitem><para>Do not touch the EFI boot variables.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Exit status</title> <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>See Also</title> <para> <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec">Boot loader specification</ulink> <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface">Systemd boot loader interface</ulink> </para> </refsect1> </refentry>