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f37d3835 1<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
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db9ecf05 4<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later -->
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ba38a24d 6<refentry id="loader.conf" conditional='HAVE_GNU_EFI'
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7 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
8 <refentryinfo>
9 <title>loader.conf</title>
10 <productname>systemd</productname>
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11 </refentryinfo>
12
13 <refmeta>
14 <refentrytitle>loader.conf</refentrytitle>
15 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
16 </refmeta>
17
18 <refnamediv>
19 <refname>loader.conf</refname>
70c8db75 20 <refpurpose>Configuration file for systemd-boot</refpurpose>
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21 </refnamediv>
22
23 <refsynopsisdiv>
24 <para><filename><replaceable>ESP</replaceable>/loader/loader.conf</filename>,
cbae79b8 25 <filename><replaceable>ESP</replaceable>/loader/entries/*.conf</filename>
cafa9d87 26 <filename><replaceable>XBOOTLDR</replaceable>/loader/entries/*.conf</filename>
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27 </para>
28 </refsynopsisdiv>
29
30 <refsect1>
31 <title>Description</title>
32
33 <para>
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34 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-boot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> will
35 read <filename><replaceable>ESP</replaceable>/loader/loader.conf</filename>, and any files with the
f37d3835 36 <literal>.conf</literal> extension under
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37 <filename><replaceable>ESP</replaceable>/loader/entries/</filename> on the EFI system partition (ESP),
38 and <filename><replaceable>XBOOTLDR</replaceable>/loader/entries/</filename> on the extended boot loader
db811444 39 partition (XBOOTLDR) as defined by <ulink url="https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/boot_loader_specification">Boot Loader
cafa9d87 40 Specification</ulink>.
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41 </para>
42
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43 <para>Each of these configuration files must consist of series of newline (i.e. ASCII code 10) separated
44 lines, each consisting of an option name, followed by whitespace, and the option
45 value. <literal>#</literal> may be used to start a comment line. Empty and comment lines are ignored. The
46 files use UTF-8 encoding.</para>
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47
48 <para>Boolean arguments may be written as
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49 <literal>yes</literal>/<literal>y</literal>/<literal>true</literal>/<literal>t</literal>/<literal>on</literal>/<literal>1</literal> or
50 <literal>no</literal>/<literal>n</literal>/<literal>false</literal>/<literal>f</literal>/<literal>off</literal>/<literal>0</literal>.
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51 </para>
52 </refsect1>
53
54 <refsect1>
55 <title>Options</title>
56
d212b862 57 <para>The configuration options supported by
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58 <filename><replaceable>ESP</replaceable>/loader/entries/*.conf</filename> and
59 <filename><replaceable>XBOOTLDR</replaceable>/loader/entries/*.conf</filename> files are defined as part
db811444 60 of the <ulink url="https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/boot_loader_specification">Boot Loader
cafa9d87 61 Specification</ulink>.</para>
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62
63 <para>The following configuration are supported by the <filename>loader.conf</filename> configuration
64 file:</para>
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65
66 <variablelist>
67 <varlistentry>
68 <term>default</term>
69
70 <listitem><para>A glob pattern to select the default entry. The default entry
71 may be changed in the boot menu itself, in which case the name of the
72 selected entry will be stored as an EFI variable, overriding this option.
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73 </para>
74
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75 <para>If set to <literal>@saved</literal> the chosen entry will be saved as an EFI variable
76 on every boot and automatically selected the next time the boot loader starts.</para>
77
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78 <table>
79 <title>Automatically detected entries will use the following names:</title>
80
81 <tgroup cols='2'>
82 <colspec colname='name' />
83 <colspec colname='expl' />
84 <thead>
85 <row>
86 <entry>Name</entry>
87 <entry>Description</entry>
88 </row>
89 </thead>
90 <tbody>
91 <row>
92 <entry>auto-efi-default</entry>
93 <entry>EFI Default Loader</entry>
94 </row>
95 <row>
96 <entry>auto-efi-shell</entry>
97 <entry>EFI Shell</entry>
98 </row>
99 <row>
100 <entry>auto-osx</entry>
101 <entry>macOS</entry>
102 </row>
103 <row>
104 <entry>auto-reboot-to-firmware-setup</entry>
105 <entry>Reboot Into Firmware Interface</entry>
106 </row>
107 <row>
108 <entry>auto-windows</entry>
109 <entry>Windows Boot Manager</entry>
110 </row>
111 </tbody>
112 </tgroup>
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113 </table>
114
172cbcdc 115 <para>Supported glob wildcard patterns are <literal>?</literal>, <literal>*</literal>, and
23742af5 116 <literal>[…]</literal> (including ranges). Note that these patterns use the same syntax as
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117 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>glob</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
118 but do not support all features. In particular, set negation and named character classes are not
119 supported. The matching is done case-insensitively on the entry ID (as shown by <command>bootctl
23742af5 120 list</command>).</para></listitem>
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121 </varlistentry>
122
123 <varlistentry>
124 <term>timeout</term>
125
126 <listitem><para>How long the boot menu should be shown before the default
127 entry is booted, in seconds. This may be changed in the boot menu itself and
128 will be stored as an EFI variable in that case, overriding this option.
129 </para>
130
815068d3 131 <para>If set to <literal>menu-hidden</literal> or <literal>0</literal> (the default) no menu
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132 is shown and the default entry will be booted immediately. The menu can be shown
133 by pressing and holding a key before systemd-boot is launched. Setting this to
134 <literal>menu-force</literal> disables the timeout while always showing the menu.</para>
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135 </listitem>
136 </varlistentry>
137
138 <varlistentry>
139 <term>console-mode</term>
140
141 <listitem><para>This option configures the resolution of the console. Takes a
142 number or one of the special values listed below. The following values may be
143 used:</para>
144
145 <variablelist>
146 <varlistentry>
147 <term>0</term>
148 <listitem>
149 <para>Standard UEFI 80x25 mode</para>
150 </listitem>
151 </varlistentry>
152
153 <varlistentry>
154 <term>1</term>
155 <listitem>
156 <para>80x50 mode, not supported by all devices</para>
157 </listitem>
158 </varlistentry>
159
160 <varlistentry>
161 <term>2</term>
162 <listitem>
163 <para>the first non-standard mode provided by the device
164 firmware, if any</para>
165 </listitem>
166 </varlistentry>
167
168 <varlistentry>
169 <term>auto</term>
170 <listitem>
171 <para>Pick a suitable mode automatically using heuristics</para>
172 </listitem>
173 </varlistentry>
174
175 <varlistentry>
176 <term>max</term>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>Pick the highest-numbered available mode</para>
179 </listitem>
180 </varlistentry>
181
182 <varlistentry>
183 <term>keep</term>
184 <listitem>
185 <para>Keep the mode selected by firmware (the default)</para>
186 </listitem>
187 </varlistentry>
188 </variablelist>
189
190 </listitem>
191 </varlistentry>
192
193 <varlistentry>
194 <term>editor</term>
195
196 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Enable (the default) or disable the
197 editor. The editor should be disabled if the machine can be accessed by
198 unauthorized persons.</para></listitem>
199 </varlistentry>
200
201 <varlistentry>
202 <term>auto-entries</term>
203
204 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Enable (the default) or disable
205 entries for other boot entries found on the boot partition. In particular,
206 this may be useful when loader entries are created to show replacement
207 descriptions for those entries.</para></listitem>
208 </varlistentry>
209
210 <varlistentry>
211 <term>auto-firmware</term>
212
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213 <listitem><para>A boolean controlling the presence of the "Reboot into firmware" entry
214 (enabled by default). If this is disabled, the firmware interface may still be reached
215 by using the <keycap>f</keycap> key.</para></listitem>
f37d3835 216 </varlistentry>
39867bb9 217
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218 <varlistentry>
219 <term>beep</term>
220
97e7d494 221 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If timeout enabled beep every second, otherwise beep n times when n-th entry in boot menu is selected (default disabled).
cc25bedb 222 Currently, only x86 is supported, where it uses the PC speaker.</para></listitem>
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223 </varlistentry>
224
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225 <varlistentry>
226 <term>secure-boot-enroll</term>
227
228 <listitem><para>Danger: this feature might soft-brick your device if used improperly.</para>
229
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230 <para>Controls enrollment of secure boot keys found on the ESP if the system is in setup mode:
231 <variablelist>
232 <varlistentry>
233 <term><option>off</option></term>
234 <listitem><para>No action is taken.</para></listitem>
235 </varlistentry>
236
237 <varlistentry>
238 <term><option>manual</option></term>
239 <listitem><para>Boot entries for found secure boot keys are created that allow manual
240 enrollment.</para></listitem>
241 </varlistentry>
242
243 <varlistentry>
244 <term><option>if-safe</option></term>
245 <listitem><para>Same behavior as <option>manual</option>, but will try to automatically
246 enroll the key <literal>auto</literal> if it is considered to be safe. Currently, this is only
247 the case if the system is running inside a virtual machine.</para></listitem>
248 </varlistentry>
249
250 <varlistentry>
251 <term><option>force</option></term>
252 <listitem><para>Always enroll the <literal>auto</literal> key if found. Note that a warning
253 message with a timeout will still be shown if this operation is unknown to be safe.</para></listitem>
254 </varlistentry>
255 </variablelist>
256 </para>
e6b0cfad 257
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258 <para>The different sets of variables can be set up under
259 <filename>/loader/keys/<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></filename> where
260 <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> is the name that is going to be used as the name of the entry. This
261 allows one to ship multiple sets of Secure Boot variables and choose which one to enroll at runtime.
262 </para>
e6b0cfad 263
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264 <para>Supported Secure Boot variables are one database for authorized images, one key exchange key
265 (KEK) and one platform key (PK). For more information, refer to the <ulink
266 url="https://uefi.org/specifications">UEFI specification</ulink>, under Secure Boot and Driver
267 Signing. Another resource that describe the interplay of the different variables is the
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268 <ulink url="https://edk2-docs.gitbook.io/understanding-the-uefi-secure-boot-chain/secure_boot_chain_in_uefi/uefi_secure_boot">
269 EDK2 documentation</ulink>.</para>
270
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271 <para>A complete set of UEFI variable includes <filename>db.auth</filename>, <filename>KEK.auth</filename>
272 and <filename>PK.auth</filename>. Note that these files need to be authenticated UEFI variables. See
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273 below for an example of how to generate them from regular X.509 keys.</para>
274
f234a56d 275 <programlisting>uuid=$(systemd-id128 new --uuid)
e6b0cfad 276for key in PK KEK db; do
f234a56d 277 openssl req -new -x509 -subj "/CN=${key}/" -keyout "${key}.key" -out "${key}.crt"
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278 openssl x509 -outform DER -in "${key}.crt" -out "${key}.der"
279 sbsiglist --owner "${uuid}" --type x509 --output "${key}.esl" "${key}.der"
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280done
281
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282for key in MicWinProPCA2011_2011-10-19.crt MicCorUEFCA2011_2011-06-27.crt MicCorKEKCA2011_2011-06-24.crt; do
283 curl "https://www.microsoft.com/pkiops/certs/${key}" --output "${key}"
284 sbsiglist --owner 77fa9abd-0359-4d32-bd60-28f4e78f784b --type x509 --output "${key%crt}esl" "${key}"
285done
286
287# Optionally add Microsoft Windows Production CA 2011 (needed to boot into Windows).
7a17e41d 288cat MicWinProPCA2011_2011-10-19.esl >>db.esl
adb9485a 289
6ba14371 290# Optionally add Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011 for firmware drivers / option ROMs
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291# and third-party boot loaders (including shim). This is highly recommended on real
292# hardware as not including this may soft-brick your device (see next paragraph).
7a17e41d 293cat MicCorUEFCA2011_2011-06-27.esl >>db.esl
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294
295# Optionally add Microsoft Corporation KEK CA 2011. Recommended if either of the
296# Microsoft keys is used as the official UEFI revocation database is signed with this
297# key. The revocation database can be updated with <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fwupdmgr</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
7a17e41d 298cat MicCorKEKCA2011_2011-06-24.esl >>KEK.esl
adb9485a 299
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300attr=NON_VOLATILE,RUNTIME_ACCESS,BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS,TIME_BASED_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS
301sbvarsign --attr ${attr} --key PK.key --cert PK.crt --output PK.auth PK PK.esl
302sbvarsign --attr ${attr} --key PK.key --cert PK.crt --output KEK.auth KEK KEK.esl
303sbvarsign --attr ${attr} --key KEK.key --cert KEK.crt --output db.auth db db.esl
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304 </programlisting>
305
306 <para>This feature is considered dangerous because even if all the required files are signed with the
307 keys being loaded, some files necessary for the system to function properly still won't be. This
308 is especially the case with Option ROMs (e.g. for storage controllers or graphics cards). See
309 <ulink url="https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/wiki/FAQ#option-rom">Secure Boot and Option ROMs</ulink>
310 for more details.</para></listitem>
311 </varlistentry>
312
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313 <varlistentry>
314 <term>reboot-for-bitlocker</term>
315
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316 <listitem><para>Caveat: This feature is experimental, and is likely to be changed (or removed in its
317 current form) in a future version of systemd.</para>
318
319 <para>Work around BitLocker requiring a recovery key when the boot loader was
320 updated (disabled by default).</para>
661615a0 321
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322 <para>Try to detect BitLocker encrypted drives along with an active TPM. If both are found and
323 Windows Boot Manager is selected in the boot menu, set the <literal>BootNext</literal> EFI variable
324 and restart the system. The firmware will then start Windows Boot Manager directly, leaving the TPM
325 PCRs in expected states so that Windows can unseal the encryption key. This allows
326 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-boot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> to
327 be updated without having to provide the recovery key for BitLocker drive unlocking.</para>
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328
329 <para>Note that the PCRs that Windows uses can be configured with the
330 <literal>Configure TPM platform validation profile for native UEFI firmware configurations</literal>
331 group policy under <literal>Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\BitLocker Drive Encryption</literal>.
8b9f0921 332 When Secure Boot is enabled, changing this to PCRs <literal>0,2,7,11</literal> should be safe.
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333 The TPM key protector needs to be removed and then added back for the PCRs on an already
334 encrypted drive to change. If PCR 4 is not measured, this setting can be disabled to speed
335 up booting into Windows.</para></listitem>
336 </varlistentry>
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337 </variablelist>
338 </refsect1>
339
340 <refsect1>
341 <title>Example</title>
342
343 <programlisting># /boot/efi/loader/loader.conf
344timeout 0
345default 01234567890abcdef1234567890abdf0-*
346editor no
347 </programlisting>
348
349 <para>The menu will not be shown by default (the menu can still be shown by
350 pressing and holding a key during boot). One of the entries with files with a
351 name starting with <literal>01234567890abcdef1234567890abdf0-</literal> will be
352 selected by default. If more than one entry matches, the one with the highest
353 priority will be selected (generally the one with the highest version number).
354 The editor will be disabled, so it is not possible to alter the kernel command
355 line.</para>
356 </refsect1>
357
358 <refsect1>
359 <title>See Also</title>
360 <para>
70c8db75 361 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-boot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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362 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>bootctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
363 </para>
364 </refsect1>
365</refentry>