bionic (8) u-boot-update.8.gz

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NAME

       u-boot-update - program to generate u-boot menu files

SYNOPSIS

       u-boot-update

DESCRIPTION

       u-boot-update  is  a  tool  used to generate the menu files used by the U-BOOT bootloader. Options can be
       configured in /etc/default/u-boot.

OPTIONS

       U_BOOT_UPDATE="true|false"
           This  variable  specifies  if  u-boot-update  is  allowed  to  modify  the  configuration  files   in
           /boot/extlinux. Values are either 'true' or 'false', default is 'true'.

       U_BOOT_ALTERNATIVES="default recovery"
           This  variable specifies which entries u-boot-update is populating. Values are 'default', 'recovery',
           'live', default is 'default recovery'.

       U_BOOT_DEFAULT="l0"
           This variable specifies the default entry to boot. The name of an entry  consists  of  two  or  three
           characters.  Linux kernel images start with the letter 'l', followed by an integer started by '0' for
           the first kernel version (which is numerically the highest one in case kernel images of more than one
           linux  version are installed) and, optionally, the mode (r for rescue mode, l for live mode). Memdisk
           entries start with the letter 'm', followed by an integer, no optional modes available.  The  default
           is 'l0'.

       U_BOOT_ENTRIES="all"
           This  variables specifies how many kernel versions should be used to populate the boot configuration.
           Value is an integer starting with 1, or 'all' to populate for all kernels, default is 'all'.

       U_BOOT_MENU_LABEL="Debian GNU/Linux, kernel"
           This variable specifies the text that is used as  a  description  in  the  boot  menu.  Value  is  an
           arbitrary  string.  If  lsb_release is installed, the distributors id is automatically determined. If
           lsb_release is not available, it defaults to 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel'.

       U_BOOT_PARAMETERS="ro quiet"
           This variable specifies additional boot parameters that are appended to each kernel entry.  Value  is
           an arbitrary string, default is 'ro quiet' (except for recovery entries, where quiet is avoided).

       U_BOOT_ROOT="root=DEVICE"
           This  variable  specifies  the  root partition. It is automatically extracted from /etc/fstab. U-BOOT
           supports both devices and UUIDs.

       U_BOOT_TIMEOUT="50"
           This variable specifies the time that U-BOOT should wait for user input during boot.  Values  are  in
           decisecond  greater  than  0  (e.g.  '10'  for  a 1 second timeout), 0 specifies to wait forever. The
           default is 50.

FILES

       /etc/default/u-boot

HOMEPAGE

       More information about U-BOOT can be found at <http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot>.

       u-boot-update  and  this  manual  page  was   written   by   Daniel   Baumann   <daniel.baumann@progress-
       technologies.net> for extlinux. Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> updated them for u-boot.