Gregory's Server… but that is not great for security.) With systemd v257, we provide a middle ground now: UKIs may now contain multiple "profiles": multiple sets of PE sections can be combined in different ways and then labelled as different profiles. Typically this would be used to build a single UKI that contains 1 kernel and 1 initrd, but 4 different kernel command lines, which would then be combined in 4 profiles, always combining the kernel/initrd and a different command line.
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 … the concept is actually ore flexible than that. You could also have a profile that picks a different initrd, or a different devicetree or a different boot splash or anything else that is embeddable into a UKI. And that's it for today. |
This way you could have one regular boot UKI profile, plus one that implements a recovery mode, another one that implements factory reset, and a fourth one that maybe boots into storage target mode.
systemd-boot has been updated to synthesize multiple menu items from a single UKI – one for each profile defined in the UKI.
While I'd expect that the primary use for multi-profile UKIs is to have a single set of kernel + initrd, plus a separate command line for each profile, …