generate-boot-csv(1)

💖 generate-boot-csv(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so real quick before anything: this is a General Commands Manual page for <rainbow>generate-boot-csv</rainbow>, and it's genuinely one of the most lowkey-useful little gremlins in the bootloader world. buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

generate-boot-csv — create BOOT.CSV file for fallback.efi 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

generate-boot-csv [-l|--loglevel] [--esp] [--add] [--csv] [--cmdline]
[-h|--help] [-V|--version]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the whole vibe here is: this thing generates a BOOT.CSV file for fallback.efi, stuffed with entries for all the UKIs it can find in $ESP/EFI/Linux. and if you've got extra EFI binaries you want in there too? just toss them in with the --add command line switch. easy. ✨

now here's the part that makes her iconic: she intentionally does NOT try to autodetect mount points and she does NOT read EFI variables. not a bug, that's the whole personality. because of that, she's totally safe to use in weird little environments like the anaconda installer (kickstart scripts) or image builders. 🫶

but bestie, there's a tradeoff and you gotta hear me: because she can't autodetect stuff, she literally cannot figure out where your ESP is. so if your ESP isn't mounted at /efi, you have to pass the --esp switch yourself. no cap, she will not guess for you. 💀

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -l, --loglevel <LEVEL> [default: info] — sets the loglevel
• --esp <ESP> — sets the efi system partition location
• --add <EFI> — adds an efi binary
• --csv <CSV> — overrides where the csv gets written
• --cmdline <APPEND> — overrides the kernel cmd line (default: /etc/kernel/cmdline)
• -h, --help — Print help (see a summary with '-h')
• -V, --version — Print version

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

v0.1.14

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

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and that's the whole page fr fr 💜 this was generate-boot-csv at version 0.1.14, from the generate-boot-csv 0.1.14 manual — go forth and boot, queen 🧚💖🌸