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From time to time I upload technical documentation that I wrote for personal use as a reference for my future self.

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useful add-ons

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April 3, 2026

This is a collection of useful CLI utilities, which usually are not by default installed by GNU/Linux distributions. ...

building an Unified Kernel Image with dracut

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January 14, 2026

The dracut man page describes dracut as a ’low-level tool for generating an initramfs/initrd image’, but with ‘uefi=yes’ in dracut’s config, dracut builds an UEFI image that is executable by an UEFI firmware. This is perfect for building an Unified Kernel Image....

Unified Kernel Images

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January 14, 2026

A Unified Kernel Image (UKI) is a combination of an UEFI boot stub, a Linux kernel, and further (optional) resources like an initrd, all combined into a single UEFI image. This file can either be directly invoked by the UEFI firmware bootloader or by a bootloader like rEFInd or an OS’ bootloader. ...

UEFI glossary

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January 7, 2026

Terms used in the domain of UEFI and related domains, and their abbreviation...

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useful add-ons

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April 3, 2026

This is a collection of useful CLI utilities, which usually are not by default installed by GNU/Linux distributions. ...

Terms used in the domain of UEFI and related domains, and their abbreviation...