run make update

[pve-docs.git] / system-booting.adoc

diff --git a/system-booting.adoc b/system-booting.adoc
index f40a469a64e53cbac53d77a75b68c6d2cc890ebd..fefc9636f7613d2cce853ce2fd3a623afa4f07a7 100644 (file)
--- a/system-booting.adoc
+++ b/system-booting.adoc
@@ -79,14 +79,16 @@ system boots even if the first boot device fails.  The ESPs are kept in sync by
 a kernel postinstall hook script `/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-pve-efiboot`. The
 script copies certain kernel versions and the initrd images to `EFI/proxmox/`
 on the root of each ESP and creates the appropriate config files in
-`loader/entries/proxmox-*.conf`.
+`loader/entries/proxmox-*.conf`. The `pve-efiboot-tool` script assists in
+managing both the synced ESPs themselves and their contents.
 
 The following kernel versions are configured by default:
 
 * the currently running kernel
 * the version being newly installed on package updates
-* the two latest kernels
-* the latest version of each kernel series (e.g. 4.15, 5.0).
+* the two latest already installed kernels
+* the latest version of the second-to-last kernel series (e.g. 4.15, 5.0), if applicable
+* any manually selected kernels (see below)
 
 The ESPs are not kept mounted during regular operation, in contrast to `grub`,
 which keeps an ESP mounted on `/boot/efi`. This helps to prevent filesystem
@@ -147,6 +149,8 @@ selected kernels, for example:
 pve-efiboot-tool kernel remove 5.0.15-1-pve
 ----
 
+NOTE: It's required to run `pve-efiboot-tool refresh` to update all EFI System
+Partitions (ESPs) after a manual kernel addition or removal from above.
 
 [[sysboot_systemd_boot_setup]]
 .Setting up a new partition for use as synced ESP
@@ -179,8 +183,11 @@ trigger a refresh of all configured ESPs.
 .Updating the configuration on all ESPs
 
 To copy and configure all bootable kernels and keep all ESPs listed in
-`/etc/kernel/pve-efiboot-uuids` in sync you just need to run `pve-efiboot-tool
-refresh`.
+`/etc/kernel/pve-efiboot-uuids` in sync you just need to run:
+
+----
+ pve-efiboot-tool refresh
+----
 (The equivalent to running `update-grub` on Systems being booted with `grub`).
 
 This is necessary should you make changes to the kernel commandline, or want to