KERNEL-BOOTCFG(1)

🎀 KERNEL-BOOTCFG(1) 🎀

okay so this is the user commands corner of the manual, and the star of the show is kernel-bootcfg, version 26.10. she manages your UEFI boot entries and honestly? she's iconic for it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

kernel-bootcfg — the manual page for kernel-bootcfg 26.10, no cap 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the whole vibe, bestie, the full invocation in all her glory:

usage: kernel-bootcfg [-h] [-l LEVEL] [--vars FILE] [--show] [-v]

[--add-uki FILE] [--update-uki FILE] [--remove-uki FILE]
       [--cleanup-uki] [--cmdline CMDLINE] [--boot-ok] [--update-csv]
       [--add-uri URI] [--remove-entry NNNN] [--once] [--boot-order POS]
       [--dry-run] [--title TITLE] [--shim FILE] [--print-loader]
       [--print-stub-info] [--print-stub-image]

and what does she do? she shows and manages UEFI boot entries. that's it, that's the whole personality ✨

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🌸 options: 🌸

• -h, --help — shows this help message and then dips, exit stage left 🫶
• -l, --loglevel LEVEL — sets the loglevel to LEVEL
• --vars FILE — reads the edk2 vars from FILE
• --show — prints the boot configuration, like a little reveal 👑
• -v, --verbose — prints more details, because we love context 💖

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🔥 update unified kernel image (UKI) boot entries: 🔥

• --add-uki FILE — adds a boot entry for the UKI image FILE
• --update-uki FILE — updates the boot entry for the UKI image FILE
• --remove-uki FILE — removes the boot entry for the UKI image FILE
• --cleanup-uki — removes stale UKI entries, she's literally doing spring cleaning 🧹✨
• --cmdline CMDLINE — overrides the UKI's cmdline when adding a boot entry. heads up though: this is ignored when Secure Boot is enabled, so don't come for her if it does nothing 🫠
• --boot-ok, --boot-successful — boot is successful, so add BootCurrent to BootOrder. slay, you made it 💅
• --update-csv — updates BOOT.CSV

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💜 update other boot entries: 💜

• --add-uri URI — adds a boot entry to the netboot URI
• --remove-entry NNNN — "add remove entry NNNN". yes bestie, that's literally what it says, typo and all, i don't make the rules 😭🙈

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⭐ options for boot entry updates: ⭐

• --once, --boot-next — boots the added/updated entry once, using BootNext. one-time main character moment 🎀
• --boot-order POS — places the added/updated entry at POS in BootOrder (0 is first, so 0 is the front row 👑)
• --dry-run — does not actually update the configuration. look, don't touch, no cap 🙈
• --title TITLE — labels the entry with TITLE
• --shim FILE — uses the shim binary FILE

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🌈 print system information: 🌈

• --print-loader — prints the boot loader name
• --print-stub-info — prints the efi stub info
• --print-stub-image — prints the efi stub image

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> — give her her flowers, she wrote all of this 💐

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aaand that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was kernel-bootcfg 26.10, dated October 2026, and it lives in the manual as KERNEL-BOOTCFG(1). go forth and boot correctly, periodt ✨💅🦋