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| author | Simon Glass | 2022-07-30 15:52:35 -0600 |
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| committer | Tom Rini | 2022-08-12 08:17:11 -0400 |
| commit | 228fe57ad20343dd9ff25ad103b6af3602aea602 (patch) | |
| tree | 1005561a0107e993307176e27559e83631bdf17e /doc/usage | |
| parent | 0917f77393126c4658c47609366ecf582f936103 (diff) | |
bootstd: Update documentation
Add some documentation updates, particularly about global bootmeths.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/usage')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/usage/cmd/bootmeth.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/usage/cmd/bootmeth.rst b/doc/usage/cmd/bootmeth.rst index 9fc7ebf0abf..29d8215a0c0 100644 --- a/doc/usage/cmd/bootmeth.rst +++ b/doc/usage/cmd/bootmeth.rst @@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ scanning bootdevs, each bootmeth is tried in turn to see if it can find a valid bootflow. You can use this command to adjust the order or even to omit some boomeths. -The argument is a quoted list of bootmeths to use, by name. +The argument is a quoted list of bootmeths to use, by name. If global bootmeths +are included, they must be at the end, otherwise the scanning mechanism will not +work correctly. bootmeth list @@ -47,14 +49,15 @@ Order Seq Name Description 1 1 efi EFI boot from an .efi file 2 2 pxe PXE boot from a network device 3 3 sandbox Sandbox boot for testing - 4 4 efi_mgr EFI bootmgr flow + glob 4 efi_mgr EFI bootmgr flow ===== === ================== ================================= The fields are as follows: Order: The order in which these bootmeths are invoked for each bootdev. If this - shows as a hyphen, then the bootmeth is not in the current ordering. + shows as a hyphen, then the bootmeth is not in the current ordering. If it + shows as 'glob', then this is a global bootmeth and should be at the end. Seq: The sequence number of the bootmeth, i.e. the normal ordering if none is set |