android-efi is a simple x86 EFI bootloader for Android™ boot images. It accepts the partition GUID and/or path of an Android boot image on the command line, loads the kernel, ramdisk and command line and finally hands over control to the kernel.

android-efi is built with Meson and gnu-efi:

meson . build
ninja -C build

Run the android.efi binary from a boot option, the UEFI Shell or your favorite UEFI bootloader. Pass the partition UUID and/or the path to the boot image as command line options.

• Boot from a boot image partition:

  80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000100
  

• Boot from a boot image file on the EFI system partition:

  /boot.img
  

• Boot from a boot image file on another partition (must be FAT32, or otherwise supported by an UEFI driver).

  80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000007/boot.img
  

• Add additional kernel parameters:

  /boot.img -- androidboot.mode=charger
  

• Load additional init ramdisks (initrd) from files. The files must be on the same partition as the android.efi binary.

  80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000100 -- initrd=/intel-ucode.img initrd=/acpi.img
  

Example configuration for systemd-boot:

title    Android
efi      /android.efi
options  normal 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000100

In this case, the first argument is ignored because this would be android.efi when using the application in an UEFI shell.

Optional: With the patch "Add Android loader type that automatically configures android.efi" for systemd-boot you can use similar syntactic sugar as for regular Linux configurations:

title    Android
android  80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000100
initrd   /intel-ucode.img
options  androidboot.mode=charger

Is then equivalent to:

title    Android
efi      /android.efi
options  android 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000100 -- initrd=/intel-ucode.img androidboot.mode=charger

android-efi

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