Main Screen
Keyboard Shortcuts
[ENTER] boot
Boot the selected boot environment, with the listed kernel and kernel command line visible at the top of the screen.
[MOD+K] kernels
Access a list of kernels available in the boot environment.
[MOD+S] snapshots
Access a list of snapshots of the selected boot environment. New boot environments can be created here.
[MOD+D] set bootfs
Set the selected boot environment as the default for the pool.
The operation will fail gracefully if the pool can not be set read/write.
[MOD+E] edit kcl
Temporarily edit the kernel command line that will be used to boot the chosen kernel in the selected boot environment. This change does not persist across reboots.
[MOD+T] revert kcl
Revert the temporary kernel command line set via [MOD+E].
[MOD+P] pool status
View the health and status of each imported pool.
[MOD+R] recovery shell
Execute a Bash shell with minimal tooling, enabling system maintenance.
[MOD+J] jump into chroot
Enter a chroot of the selected boot environment. The boot environment is mounted read/write if the zpool is imported read/write.
[MOD+W] import read/write
If possible, the pool behind the selected boot environment is exported and then re-imported in read/write mode.
This is not possible if any of the following conditions are met:
The version of ZFS in ZFSBootMenu has detected unsupported pool features, due to an upgraded pool.
The system has an active resume, indicating that the pool is currently in use.
Upon successful re-import in read/write mode, each of the boot environments on this pool will be highlighted in red at the top of the screen.
[MOD+O] sort order
Cycle the sorting key through the following list:
name Use the filesystem or snapshot name
creation Use the filesystem or snapshot creation time
used Use the filesystem or snapshot size
The default sort key is name.
[MOD+L] view logs
View logs, as indicated by [!]. The indicator will be yellow for warning conditions and red for errors.