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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Cc: dallan@redhat.com, gleb@redhat.com, seabios@seabios.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com,
	kevin@koconnor.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Resend][Seabios PATCH] don't boot from un-selected devices
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:38:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D16EE5.1050105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355901885-24398-1-git-send-email-akong@redhat.com>

On 12/19/12 08:24, Amos Kong wrote:
> Current seabios will try to boot from selected devices first,
> if they are all failed, seabios will also try to boot from
> un-selected devices.
> 
> For example:
> @ qemu-kvm -boot order=n,menu=on ...
> 
> Guest will boot from network first, if it's failed, guest will try to
> boot from other un-selected devices (floppy, cdrom, disk) one by one.
> 
> Sometimes, user don't want to boot from some devices. This patch changes
> seabios to boot only from selected devices.

I think (i.e. I didn't test) the patch breaks booting if the user didn't
explicitly specify a boot device.

cheers,
  Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-19  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-19  7:22 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] don't boot from un-selected devices Amos Kong
2012-12-19  7:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [Resend][Seabios PATCH] " Amos Kong
2012-12-19  7:38   ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2012-12-19  8:12     ` Amos Kong
2012-12-19  9:32   ` Gleb Natapov
2012-12-25  3:58     ` Amos Kong
2012-12-25  6:37       ` Gleb Natapov
2012-12-25 10:37         ` Amos Kong
2012-12-26  0:55           ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS PATCH v2] boot: support strict boot and make it configurable Amos Kong
2013-01-09  4:00             ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-01-09  5:03               ` Amos Kong
2013-01-12 22:01                 ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-01-09  5:17               ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS PATCH v3] boot: add a new type to halt booting Amos Kong
2012-12-25 15:59     ` [Qemu-devel] [Resend][Seabios PATCH] don't boot from un-selected devices Ronen Hod
2012-12-25 17:15       ` Gleb Natapov
2012-12-19 16:39   ` Kevin O'Connor

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