Boot Commands — EFI Shell. Commands related to nPartition booting. |
| autoboot | Set/view autoboot timeout variable. |
| bcfg | Display/modify
the driver/boot configuration. |
| boottest | Set/view BootTest bits. |
dbprofile | Display/modify direct boot profiles for use by lanboot. |
| lanboot | Boot over the LAN. |
| reconfigreset | Reset the system (nPartition) for reconfiguration; the
nPartition remains inactive, in the shutdown for reconfig state. |
| reset | Reset the system (nPartition). |
| search | Connect drivers for bootables devices. |
Configuration Commands — EFI Shell. Commands for changing and retrieving system (nPartition) information. |
| acpiconfig | Set/view ACPI configuration mode. |
| cellconfig | Deconfigure/reconfigure cells. (Set cell use-on-next-boot values.) |
| cpuconfig | Deconfigure/reconfigure processors and processor cores.. |
| date | Display
the current date or set the date of the system (nPartition). |
| dimmconfig | Deconfigure/reconfigure memory (DIMMs). |
| err | Display/change
the error level. |
| errdump | View/clear logs. |
| fru | View
FRU data. |
| info | Display
hardware information. |
| monarch | Set/view a monarch processor. |
| palproc | Make a PAL call. |
| romdrivers | Enable/disable PCI expansion ROM drivers. |
| rootcell | Set/view preferred root cells. (Set nPartition core cell choices.) |
| salproc | Make a SAL call. |
| tftp | Performs
TFTP operation to a bootp/DHCP enabled Unix boot server. |
| time | Display
the current time or set the time of the system (nPartition). EFI time is set
and presented in GMT (Greenwich mean time). |
| variable | Save/restore specific EFI variables. |
| ver | Display
the version information. |
Device, Driver, and Handle Commands — EFI Shell. Commands for managing devices, drivers, and handles. |
| baud | View
serial port com settings. |
| connect | Bind a driver to a device. |
| dblk | Hex dump of BlkIo devices. |
devices | Display devices managed by EFI drivers. |
devtree | Display tree of devices. |
dh | Dump handle info. |
disconnect | Disconnect driver(s) from device(s). |
drivers | Display list of drivers. |
drvcfg | Invoke the Driver Config Protocol. |
drvdiag | Invoke the Driver Diagnostics Protocol. |
guid | Dump known GUID IDs. |
lanaddress | Display MAC address. |
load | Load EFI drivers. |
map | Map shortname to device path. |
openinfo | Display the open protocols for given handle. |
pci | Display PCI devices or PCI function configuration
space. |
reconnect | Reconnect driver(s) from a device. |
unload | Unload a protocol image. |
Filesystem Commands — EFI Shell. Commands for managing files, directories, and attributes. |
attrib | Display/change the attributes of files/directories. |
cd | Update/view the current directory. |
comp | Compare the contents of two files. |
cp | Copy one or more files/directories to another location. |
edit | Edit an ASCII or UNICODE file in full screen. |
eficompress | Compress infile and write to outfile. |
efidecompress | Decompress infile and write to outfile. |
hexedit | Edit a file, block device, or memory region using
hex. |
ls | Display a list of files and subdirectories in a directory. |
mkdir | Create one or more directories. |
mount | Mount a filesystem on a block device. |
rm | Delete one or more files/directories. |
setsize | Set the size of a file. |
touch | Update time of file/directory with current time. |
type | Display the contents of a file. |
vol | Display volume information of the file system. |
Memory Commands — EFI Shell. Commands for listing and managing memory, EFI variables, and NVRAM details. |
default | Set the default NVRAM values. |
dmem | Dump memory or memory mapped IO. |
dmpstore | Display all EFI variables. |
memmap | Display the memory map. |
mm | Display/modify MEM/IO/PCI. |
pdt | View/clear nPartition or cell memory page deallocation
table (PDT). |
Shell Navigation and Other Commands — EFI Shell. Commands for basic EFI Shell navigation and customization. |
alias | Set/get alias settings. |
cls | Clear the standard output with an optional background
color. |
exit | Exit EFI Shell environment. |
getmtc | Display current monotonic counter value. |
help or ? | Display help. |
mode | Display the mode of the console output device. |
set | Set/Get environment variable. |
xchar | Turn on/off extended character features. |
Shell Script Commands / Programming Constructs — EFI Shell. EFI shell-script commands. |
echo | Echo message to stdout or toggle script echo. |
else | Script-only: Use with IF THEN. |
endfor | Script-only: Delimiter for FOR loop construct. |
endif | Script-only: Delimiter for IF THEN construct. |
for | Script-only: Loop construct. |
goto | Script-only: Jump to label location in script. |
if | Script-only: IF THEN construct. |
input | Take user input and place in EFI variable. |
pause | Script-only: Prompt to quit or continue. |
| stall | Stall the processor for some microseconds. |
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