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docs(readme): correct the strict mode table

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alex authored and Alex Zenla committed 2026-10-04 10:55:07 -07:00
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@@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ chainload.path = "$entry-root\\$chainload"
chainload.options = ["$options"]
chainload.devicetree = "$entry-root\\$devicetree"
# an entry can have up to 32 initrds, as $initrd-0 to $initrd-31. unused ones are skipped.
# only the first eight are listed here, so add the others to boot an entry with more.
# only the first eight are listed here. add the others to boot an entry with more,
# as Sprout warns when an entry has an initrd that the chain does not list.
chainload.linux-initrd-chain = [
"$entry-root\\$initrd-0",
"$entry-root\\$initrd-1",
@@ -267,7 +268,8 @@ Sprout uses the same variables as systemd-boot, so `bootctl`, `systemctl reboot
`LoaderEntryPreferred`, `LoaderEntryOneShot`, `LoaderEntryLastBooted`, `LoaderConfigTimeout`,
and `LoaderConfigTimeoutOneShot`.
The values that tools like `bootctl` set outrank `sprout.toml`, which outranks `loader.conf`.
The values that tools like `bootctl` set in the bootloader interface outrank `sprout.toml`, which outranks
`loader.conf`. In strict mode, `LoaderEntryOneShot` is tried before everything else for the default entry.
The default entry comes from the first of these that matches an entry:
@@ -287,16 +289,16 @@ in the options of `sprout.toml`, removes all of them.
| Behavior | By default | In strict mode |
|------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| One-shot entry (`LoaderEntryOneShot`) | Booted at once, without the menu. | Only the default for this boot, so the menu still shows. |
| One-shot entry (`LoaderEntryOneShot`) | Booted at once, without the menu. | Only the default for this boot. The menu and its timeout still apply. |
| Menu timeout that nothing sets | The menu is shown for 10 seconds. | The menu is hidden. |
| Default entry with no boot counter tries | Skipped for another entry. | Used, as `default` ignores the tries. |
| Entry with more than one of `linux`, `efi`, `uki` | Boots the first of them. | Hidden. |
| Entry whose file does not exist | Shown, and it fails when booted. | Hidden. |
| Unified kernel image without a name | Named after its file. | Hidden. |
| Version of a unified kernel image | Falls back to the kernel version in `.uname`. | Only the os-release fields. |
| Boot counter of a plain `efi` entry | Counted. | Not counted. |
| Name and version of a unified kernel image | The name is `PRETTY_NAME` or `ID`, and the version is `IMAGE_VERSION`, `VERSION_ID`, `BUILD_ID`, then `.uname`. | The fields systemd-boot uses: the name is `PRETTY_NAME`, `IMAGE_ID`, `NAME` or `ID`, and the version is `IMAGE_VERSION`, `VERSION`, `VERSION_ID` or `BUILD_ID`. |
| Boot counter of a plain `efi` entry | Counted. | Not counted, but its tries still make it bad. |
| The extended boot loader partition | Read when `xbootldr` is set on the generator. | Always read. |
| Autoconfiguration | Reads BLS entries from every disk, one generator each. | Reads Sprout's partition and the XBOOTLDR of its disk, as one generator. |
| Autoconfiguration | Reads BLS entries from every disk, one generator each. | Reads BLS entries from Sprout's partition and the XBOOTLDR of its disk, as one generator. Windows and Linux entries are found as before. |
| Boot entry that returns | Sprout exits to the firmware. | The menu is shown again. |
| Devicetree that can't be installed | Warns and boots without it. | The entry fails. |