Post #3116347
2026-05-26 04:18 UTC
…allow "enriching" a UKI via system credentials, sysext DDIs, confext DDIs or EFI addons. But this so far left one question unanswered: how do I generate a new menu entry from a sidecar + UKI combination of my choice? after all, the reason we even support multiple menu entries is to support multiple versions of the kernel, so that one can always fall back. But this kind of fall back logic should also apply to the sidecars, because they have a chance to fail as much as the kernel itself has.
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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-05-26 04:21
With v261 we are going full circle to some level: there's now a new command "bootctl link", which links together a UKI (aka a Type#2 entry) and a bunch of side-cars and generates a new Type #1 entry from it (or, possibly, multiple, if profiles are used). "bootctl link" hence plays a role somehwat similar to the pre-existing "kernel-install" tool, but has a much stricter focus: it does not support any plugins, but it does support Varlink from day 1. If you ask me when distros should…