From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58209) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9TUy-0001GM-Ok for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:15:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9TUx-0007oM-LR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:15:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9TUx-0007mC-Ck for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:15:23 -0400 Message-ID: <50482351.6050302@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:15:13 +0800 From: Amos Kong MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Add a new boot parameter to set delay time before seabios retry to boot List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Kevin O'Connor , seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gleb Natapov Hi all, Seabios supports automatically reboot after X second delay on failed boot [1], I want to add a parameter for qemu, it's used put a boot parameter into romfile for seabios to set the delay time. # qemu ... -boot order=n,menu=on,delay=5 ... Comments & suggestions ? Thanks! [1] commit b8fcf46826e77c835da0ad8127a17895bb2e2fca Author: Kevin O'Connor Date: Sat May 12 22:12:22 2012 -0400 Automatically reboot after 60 second delay on failed boot. If no valid boot devices are found, display the error for 60 seconds (by default) and then reboot. This enables a periodic retry in case one of the boot devices is still coming online. Signed-off-by: Kevin O'Connor -- Amos.