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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2023-10-01 19:15:25 -0600
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2023-12-13 18:39:05 -0500
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bootstd: Add a menu option to bootflow scan
Allow showing a menu and automatically booting, with 'bootflow scan'. This is more convenient than using a script. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/doc/usage/cmd/bootflow.rst b/doc/usage/cmd/bootflow.rst
index 2198ff60493..27e1330ad8a 100644
--- a/doc/usage/cmd/bootflow.rst
+++ b/doc/usage/cmd/bootflow.rst
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ Flags are:
matters, since by then the system boots in the OS and U-Boot is no-longer
running. `bootflow scan -b` is a quick way to boot the first available OS.
A valid bootflow is one that made it all the way to the `loaded` state.
+ Note that if `-m` is provided as well, booting is delayed until the user
+ selects a bootflow.
-e
Used with -l to also show errors for each bootflow. The shows detailed error
@@ -71,6 +73,9 @@ Flags are:
priority or label is tried, to see if more bootdevs can be discovered, but
this flag disables that process.
+-m
+ Show a menu of available bootflows for the user to select. When used with
+ -b it then boots the one that was selected, if any.
The optional argument specifies a particular bootdev to scan. This can either be
the name of a bootdev or its sequence number (both shown with `bootdev list`).