From 2b21c973876587dfa012a2ed892c6786cecec09a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Enrico Jorns Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:53:46 +0100 Subject: doc: bootchooser: be more explicit about when the bootchooser terminates Signed-off-by: Enrico Jorns Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer --- Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst index 0c5e56407a..00ce896e37 100644 --- a/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst +++ b/Documentation/user/bootchooser.rst @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ booting a fallback in case of a permanent failure. To indicate a successful boot, one must explicitly reset the remaining attempts counter. See `Marking a Boot as Successful`_. +The bootchooser algorithm aborts when all enabled targets (priority > 0) have +no remaining attempts left. + To prevent ending up in an unbootable system after a number of failed boot attempts, there is a also a built-in mechanism to reset the counters to their defaults, controlled by the ``global.bootchooser.reset_attempts`` variable. It holds a -- cgit v1.2.3