From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43485) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qy0Ew-0001Ij-RH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:42:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qy0Ev-0002y0-DF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:42:54 -0400 Received: from ssl.dlh.net ([91.198.192.8]:54357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qy0Ev-0002xq-70 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:42:53 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ssl.dlh.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2291461BA for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:42:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ssl.dlh.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ssl.dlh.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id L0KCy-3tdJgI for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:42:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.21.12.60] (unknown [82.141.1.226]) by ssl.dlh.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E3AAA14615A for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:42:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E5B7B3B.6020804@dlh.net> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:42:51 +0200 From: Peter Lieven MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4E5B65FE.7020101@dlh.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm 0.15.0 boot order not working List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 29.08.2011 13:21, Ottavio wrote: > On 29 August 2011 11:12, Peter Lieven wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when I specify something like >> >> qemu -boot order=dc -cdrom image.iso -drive file=img.raw,if=virtio,boot=yes >> >> or >> >> qemu -boot order=n -cdrom image.iso -drive file=img.raw,if=virtio,boot=yes >> >> with qemu-kvm 0.15.0 >> >> it will always directly boot from the hardrive and not from cdrom or >> network. >> is this on purpose? the behaviour was different in earlier versions. >> If i omit the boot=yes in the drive specification the "-boot order" >> parameter is working >> as expected. > This is the qemu doc file: > http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html > > and this is qemu-kvm man page: > http://linux.die.net/man/1/qemu-kvm > > I have never seen the boot=yes as an option to the argument -drive. I > have also checked on previous versions of qemu and I haven't seen it > so I'm puzzled why it should have worked in the first instance. -drive [file=file][,if=type][,bus=n][,unit=m][,media=d][,index=i] [,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s[,trans=t]][,snapshot=on|off] [,cache=writethrough|writeback|none|unsafe][,format=f] [,serial=s][,addr=A][,id=name][,aio=threads|native] [,readonly=on|off][,boot=on|off] use 'file' as a drive image you cannot boot e.g. from a virtio_blk device without this flag. it seems that the if the extboot option rom is loaded the specified boot order is ignored. peter > [ BTW this question would be better suited to a qemu-users mailing > list or forum... if there was one... ] > >