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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:42:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0407C2.80906@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091118043438.GA28590@morn.localdomain>

Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> The order of hard drives is determined by the BCV list.  There is only
> one entry in the IPL table for booting from a hard drive - selecting
> "-boot c" prioritizes this IPL - hard drive booting always boots from
> the "C" drive.  It's possible to tell SeaBIOS to map the C drive to
> something other than the first item on the BCV list, but that
> functionality is currently only available via the boot menu.
>   

This is the bit that confused me.  Does an IPL entry for the hard disk 
result in each BCV device being booted in order of BCV priority or is 
there a means to have multiple IPL entries?  IOW, how would we support a 
boot order of first hard disk, second hard disk, then CD-ROM?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-18 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-16 18:04 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 18:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] extboot: add option rom Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 18:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] extboot: qemu code Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 19:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded Anthony Liguori
2009-11-16 20:20   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 21:14     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-17 11:36       ` Paul Brook
2009-11-17 12:26         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-17 12:36           ` Paul Brook
2009-11-17 13:01             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-17 13:35               ` Paul Brook
2009-11-17 14:23                 ` Alexander Graf
2009-11-17 14:53                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-18  4:34       ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-11-18 14:42         ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-11-19  1:27           ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-11-16 22:39     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-16 22:55       ` Anthony Liguori

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