[Qemu-devel] Re: Regression due to "Fall back to network boot..."

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> [ What happened to the scm commit list, btw?]
>>   
> 
> I need to move it to qemu.org.
> 
>> Hi Anthony,
>>
>> your patch 94ca5a9859 prevents booting PCs unless some boot order of
>> less than 4 devices is explicitly specified. The reason is
>>
>> #define PC_MAX_BOOT_DEVICES 3
>>
>> and the CMOS-based interface to the BIOS. Maybe the latter can be
>> enhanced so that the former can be increased, but for now reverting this
>> commit is probably better.
>>   
> 
> Sorry about that.  I swore I tested it and it seemed like such a simple
> change.  It's now reverted.

OK, thanks. Still one complaint: gPXE comes with an annoying boot delay
even if you can boot from disk or have _explicitly_ specified this. I'm
not familiar with it, but I bet there is some magic config switch to
disable this...

Jan


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