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.