ABOOTIMG(1)

💅 abootimg — manipulate Android Boot Images ✨

Okay so this is the abootimg page from the General Commands Manual, section 1, and we’re gonna read it together like besties. 🫶

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🎀 NAME 🎀

abootimg — manipulate Android Boot Images.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie, it’s a tool for the boot-image life. The page says: “Tool to read/write/update android boot images.” That’s the whole description, and honestly it ate. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Four forms, no cap — here they are exactly as written: 🧚

abootimg
 -i <bootimg>
abootimg
 -x <bootimg> [<bootimg.cfg> [<kernel> [<ramdisk> [<secondstage>]]]]
abootimg
 -u <bootimg> [-c "param=value"] [-f <bootimg.cfg>] [-k <kernel>] [-r
<ramdisk>] [-s <secondstage>]
abootimg
 --create <bootimg> [-c "param=value"] [-f <bootimg.cfg>] -k <kernel> -r
<ramdisk> [-s <secondstage>]

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -i — print boot image information
• -x — Extract a boot image
• -u — Update a boot image
• --create — Create a boot image

🧚 Options for extracting boot images

• bootimg — Existing boot image to use
• bootimg.cfg — Name for the bootimg.cfg file, defaults to bootimg.cfg
• kernel — Name for the kernel image, defaults to zImage
• ramdisk — Name for the ramdisk image, defaults to initrd.img
• secondstage — Name for the second-stage image, defaults to stage2.img

🌈 Options for updating and creating boot images

• bootimg — Existing boot image to use
• -c param=value — Existing boot image to use — yep, that’s literally the description listed for this one, bestie, no edits from me 🙈
• -f <bootimg.cfg> — Update bootimg.cfg with the named file
• -k <kernel> — Update kernel with the named file
• -r <ramdisk> — Update ramdisk with the named file
• -s <secondstage> — Update secondstage image with the named file

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That’s the whole page, bestie. Cute sign-off: ABOOTIMG(1), General Commands Manual — and since the original footer doesn’t give a source/version/date line beyond that, there’s nothing extra to spill. 🫶💖