From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:47:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E1DE68.2080106@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155583440.22107.30.camel@aglarond.local>
It seems a good idea.
Fabrice.
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> The bochs rombios has supported attempting to boot from more than one
> device for a while. It seems like it would make sense to be able to
> specify "-boot acd" as an argument for qemu to try booting first from
> the floppy, then the cd and finally the hard drive to make things more
> like a "real" machine. Does this seem reasonable?
>
> If there's interest in this, I can clean up the patch I've started[1]
> and send it on.
>
> Jeremy
>
> [1] The patch is against the pseudo-fork of qemu being used in Xen so I
> need to do some rediffing as well as update the non-PC machine
> initializations for the change
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-14 19:24 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices Jeremy Katz
2006-08-15 14:47 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2006-08-15 17:45 ` K. Richard Pixley
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2006-08-09 20:04 Jeremy Katz
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