coreos/documentation/components/core/u-boot.rst

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.. index:: UBOOT
Firmware: U-Boot
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.. hint::
CoreOS should work with any UEFI compliant firmware. Using U-Boot is not
mandatory.
`U-Boot <https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ is built by default with
UEFI enabled and secure boot enabled. UEFI secure boot related keys are
installed at build time and can't be changed from the U-Boot command line.
Workflow
--------
U-Boot will boot the default UEFI application from the EFI System Partition.
The path to the default UEFI application is architecture dependent:
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:widths: 25 25
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* - Platform Architecture
- Path
* - ARM32
- /EFI/BOOT/bootarm.efi
* - ARM64
- /EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi
* - x86_64
- /EFI/BOOT/bootax64.efi
Known Issues
------------
.. danger::
The U-Boot configuration used by CoreOS currently was not reviewed for
security issue and is not safe (access to u-boot command line is allowed).
.. danger::
CoreOS U-Boot configuration enable UEFI Secure Boot but the U-Boot binary
itself is not validated. Thus we don't provide a full end-to-end secure boot
solution yet.