Bug#1104679: systemd-boot: please implement menu entry for non-kernel bootables e.g. ipxe, memetest86+

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Package: systemd-boot
Version: 257.5-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine at iki.fi

Greetings,

Having migrated one EFI host from grub-efi to systemd-boot, I'm quite pleased with how quickly and quietly it boots.

One caveat: it seemingly doesn't implement automated boot menu entries for e.g. ipxe, memtes86+ the way GRUB does. It would be nice if this were implemented.

Cheers!
Martin-Éric

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.22-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd-boot depends on:
ii  libc6               2.41-7
ii  libsystemd-shared   257.5-2
ii  systemd             257.5-2
ii  systemd-boot-efi    257.5-2
ii  systemd-boot-tools  257.5-2

Versions of packages systemd-boot recommends:
ii  efibootmgr   18-2
ii  shim-signed  1.44+15.8-1

Versions of packages systemd-boot suggests:
pn  systemd-ukify  <none>

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