efibootdump(8)

efibootdump8

Dump a boot entries from a variable or a file

Usage

efibootdump [{-? | --help}] [--usage] [-f <file1> [-f <fileN>]] [[-g guid] <name0> [[<nameN>]]]

Overview

efibootdump is a userspace application used to display individual UEFI boot options, from a file or a UEFI variable. This allows e.g. saved files from efivarfs to be displayed, as well as variables on the running machine.

Options

The following is a list of options accepted by efibootmgr:

-g | --guid {guid}

Any variables specified by name have the specified GUID.

-f | --file <file>

Read a single boot variable from the specified file.

<nameN>

Display the specified variable on the local machine. If no GUID is specified, EFI Global Variable is the default.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 9–10
  2. 11–Arch

Bugs

Please direct any bugs, features, patches, etc. to the Red Hat bootloader team at https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr .

From efibootmgr 18-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.