diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/boot/loader/systemd-boot/systemd-boot-builder.py b/nixos/modules/system/boot/loader/systemd-boot/systemd-boot-builder.py
index 2980b4ba68570..adc8930630981 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/system/boot/loader/systemd-boot/systemd-boot-builder.py
+++ b/nixos/modules/system/boot/loader/systemd-boot/systemd-boot-builder.py
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ def main() -> None:
             if os.readlink(system_dir(*gen)) == args.default_config:
                 write_loader_conf(*gen)
         except OSError as e:
-            print("ignoring profile '{}' in the list of boot entries because of the following error:\n{}".format(profile, e), file=sys.stderr)
+            print("ignoring generation '{}' in the list of boot entries because of the following error:\n{}".format(*gen, e), file=sys.stderr)
 
     for root, _, files in os.walk('@efiSysMountPoint@/efi/nixos/.extra-files', topdown=False):
         relative_root = root.removeprefix("@efiSysMountPoint@/efi/nixos/.extra-files").removeprefix("/")