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| author | Jan Janssen <medhefgo@web.de> | 2022-01-04 13:00:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2022-01-10 21:34:12 +0100 |
| commit | 9818ec8ea56e14902ac8e548a0f366dbb259f051 (patch) | |
| tree | d6de045c877ee750aeefce7ecc557022c7a6f98e /man/systemd-boot.xml | |
| parent | Merge pull request #22071 from keszybz/xdg-autostart-logs (diff) | |
| download | systemd-9818ec8ea56e14902ac8e548a0f366dbb259f051.tar.xz systemd-9818ec8ea56e14902ac8e548a0f366dbb259f051.zip | |
boot: Change boot entry sorting
There are a few undesirable properties to how boot entries are
currently sorted.
First, it sorts by entry file name only, which may not correspond
to the title that is shown (for exmaple because it is prefixed by
machine-id). The file ending will also create unexpected ordering
("arch-lts.conf" would come before "arch.conf").
While the list is sorted alphabetically ascending, it is also
lower version/priority first, which is unintuitive. In particular,
a boot-counted entry that is bad (0 tries left) will be at the very
top.
Additionally, the Windows and Mac loaders should be sorted with
the rest of the loaders.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd-boot.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-boot.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-boot.xml b/man/systemd-boot.xml index ceea368ef2..d503f09548 100644 --- a/man/systemd-boot.xml +++ b/man/systemd-boot.xml @@ -501,10 +501,10 @@ considered 'good' from then on.</para> <para>The boot menu takes the 'tries left' counter into account when sorting the menu entries: entries in 'bad' - state are ordered at the beginning of the list, and entries in 'good' or 'indeterminate' at the end. The user can - freely choose to boot any entry of the menu, including those already marked 'bad'. If the menu entry to boot is - automatically determined, this means that 'good' or 'indeterminate' entries are generally preferred (as the bottom - item of the menu is the one booted by default), and 'bad' entries will only be considered if there are no 'good' or + state are ordered towards the end of the list, and entries in 'good' or 'indeterminate' towards the beginning. + The user can freely choose to boot any entry of the menu, including those already marked 'bad'. If the menu entry + to boot is automatically determined, this means that 'good' or 'indeterminate' entries are generally preferred as + boot entries are tried in sort order, and 'bad' entries will only be considered if there are no 'good' or 'indeterminate' entries left.</para> <para>The <citerefentry><refentrytitle>kernel-install</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> kernel |