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Lennart Poettering 818bf54632 tree-wide: drop 'This file is part of systemd' blurb
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html

The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.

hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
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<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> list</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> can check the EFI boot loader status, list
available entries, and install, update, or remove the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-boot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
boot loader on the current system.</para>
<para><command>bootctl status</command> shows the currently installed versions of
the boot loader binaries and all current EFI boot variables.</para>
<para><command>bootctl list</command> displays all configured boot loader entries.
</para>
<para><command>bootctl update</command> updates all installed versions of
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-boot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
if the current version is newer than the version installed in the EFI system
partition. This also includes the EFI default/fallback loader at
<filename><replaceable>ESP</replaceable>/EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI</filename>. 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
<filename><replaceable>ESP</replaceable>/EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI</filename>. 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 (ESP). If not specified, <filename>/efi</filename>,
<filename>/boot</filename>, and <filename>/boot/efi</filename> are checked in turn. It is recommended to mount
the ESP to <filename>/boot</filename>, if possible.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-p</option></term>
<term><option>--print-path</option></term>
<listitem><para>This option modifies the behaviour of <command>status</command>.
Just print the path to the EFI System Partition (ESP) to standard output and
exit.</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>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-boot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<ulink url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec">Boot Loader Specification</ulink>,
<ulink url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface">Boot Loader Interface</ulink>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>