[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices

[Jeremy Katz]

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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices

[Fabrice Bellard]

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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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices

[K. Richard Pixley]

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

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices

[Jeremy Katz]

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
initialization for the change