From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GD2yr-00016T-IB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:45:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GD2yo-00015p-Ol for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:45:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GD2yo-00015m-Jt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:45:30 -0400 Received: from [12.7.175.14] (helo=mx2.palmsource.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GD34t-0001FS-J5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:51:47 -0400 Message-ID: <44E20835.9080503@palmsource.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:45:25 -0700 From: "K. Richard Pixley" 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 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? > It would make some things like installing guests, (which tend to want to reboot from the hard disk they've just populated from ether/cd/dvd/whatever), easier. --rich