From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GD0BV-0002zl-45 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:46:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GD0BT-0002z9-LT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:46:24 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GD0BT-0002z0-Ba for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:46:23 -0400 Received: from [80.12.242.1] (helo=smtp-msa-out19.orange.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GD0HW-0006dc-FE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:52:38 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.101] (AMontpellier-251-1-33-198.w83-113.abo.wanadoo.fr [83.113.104.198]) by mwinf1903.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 3470B1C0008E for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:46:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44E1DE68.2080106@bellard.org> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:47:04 +0200 From: Fabrice Bellard MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices References: <1155583440.22107.30.camel@aglarond.local> In-Reply-To: <1155583440.22107.30.camel@aglarond.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > >