to manage manually selected kernel list. Signed-off-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbich...@proxmox.com> --- reflecting my last, not-yet-applied series for pve-kernel-meta
system-booting.adoc | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/system-booting.adoc b/system-booting.adoc index 61b74df..c7f6534 100644 --- a/system-booting.adoc +++ b/system-booting.adoc @@ -118,29 +118,36 @@ initrd /EFI/proxmox/5.0.15-1-pve/initrd.img-5.0.15-1-pve .Manually keeping a kernel bootable Should you wish to add a certain kernel and initrd image to the list of -bootable kernels you need to: +bootable kernels you can use `pve-efiboot-tool kernel add`. -* create a directory on the ESP (e.g. `/EFI/personalkernel`) -* copy the kernel and initrd image to that directory -* create a entry for this kernel in `/loader/entries/*.conf` +E.g., to add the kernel with ABI version `5.0.15-1-pve` to the list of kernels +to keep installed and synced to all ESPs, run the following: -NOTE: do not use `/EFI/proxmox` as directory since all entries there can be -removed by `/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-pve-efiboot` +---- +pve-efiboot-tool kernel add 5.0.15-1-pve +---- + +`pve-efiboot-tool kernel list` will list all kernel versions currently selected +for booting: + +---- +# pve-efiboot-tool kernel list +Manually selected kernels: +5.0.15-1-pve + +Automatically selected kernels: +5.0.12-1-pve +4.15.18-18-pve +---- -Example (keeping kernel 5.0.15-1-pve and copying to an ESP mounted on -`/mnt/esp`): +To remove a kernel from the list of manually selected kernels, run +`pve-efiboot-tool remove`, e.g.: ---- -mkdir /mnt/esp/EFI/preferred-kernel -cp /boot/initrd.img-5.0.15-1-pve /boot/vmlinuz-5.0.15-1-pve /mnt/esp/EFI/preferred-kernel -echo -n "title Preferred Kernel -version 5.0.15-1-pve -linux /mnt/esp/EFI/preferred-kernel/vmlinuz-5.0.15-1-pve -initrd /mnt/esp/EFI/preferred-kernel/initrd.img-5.0.15-1-pve -options " > /mnt/esp/loader/entries/preferred.conf -cat /etc/kernel/cmdline >> /mnt/esp/loader/entries/preferred.conf +pve-efiboot-tool kernel remove 5.0.15-1-pve ---- + [[sysboot_systemd_boot_setup]] .Setting up a new partition for use as synced ESP -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel