elilo(8) System Boot elilo(8)NAMEelilo - Installer for the EFI Linux Loader
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/elilo [options]
Options:
--refresh-EBM refresh EFI boot menu
-k --keep don't purge old files
-t --test test only
-v --verbose increase verbosity
-h --help brief help message
--man full documentation
-V --version display version
OPTIONS--refresh-EBM
Recreate EFI boot manager menu entries based on information in
"/etc/elilo.conf".
--test Test only. Do not really write anything, no new boot
configuration nor kernel/initrd images. Use together with -v
to find out what elilo is about to do.
--verbose
Increase level of verbosity.
--help Print a brief help message and exits.
--man Prints the manual page and exits.
--version
Prints the version information and exits.
DESCRIPTION
This program will perform all steps to transfer the necessary parts to
the appropriate locations...
LIMITATIONS
For now, all image-entries are treated as "optional" in order to more
closely match the behavior of the real loader (i.e. "elilo.efi"), which
silently ignores missing files while reading the configuration.
This may be considered a bug by experienced LILO users, where only
those specifically marked as such are treated that way.
It is planned to introduce keywords like "mandatory" and "optional" in
future releases though.
EFI Boot Manager Failure
Creation of EFI Boot Manager menu entries needs some space in non-
volatile memory. This space is limited--even more so, since Linux
dares using only half of it. Therefore "--refresh-EBM" may fail with
an "unexpected error". If you encounter this, you basically have two
options. Either free up some space (e.g. old "dump-typeN" variables or
outdated boot entries) and reboot. (The tricky part here is to not
remove vital system variables.) Or, if you are really sure that your
UEFI does sane garbage-collection and fulfills the specification, you
may use the "efi_no_storage_paranoia" kernel parameter. But beware,
using this parameter with faulty firmware may brick your board!
Note: there are boards, which always use more than 50% of NVRAM. Those
factually leave no choice.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/packages/elilo
SuSE Linux 3.14-0.30.3 elilo(8)