Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot order problem and disable iPXE/gPXE

[Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

> On 01/04/12 19:02, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having the following boot order problem using an SCSI option ROM:
>>
>
>> Still boots the cdrom instead of harddisk. So it is impossible to have a
>> bootable CDROM in the VM without booting from it.
>
> -option-rom romfile=/root/roms/8xx_64.rom,bootindex=1

Ok, works well, but I think than "-boot order=c" is buggy, right?

>> 2.) -device rtl8139,romfile=/dev/null
>
> Better use a empty string as romfile argument, that will make the ROM
> pci bar go away instead of creating one with an invalid rom.

Thnx. Works well by specifying no romfile, that's the trick. I had the 
problem than otherwise devices were created. But I'm still getting the
following iPXE rom message:
iPXE v1.0.0-591-g7aee315
iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:03.0 CA00 PCI2.10 PnP PMM+0FFCA670+0FF8A670 CA00

How to disable it, too?
What's this option ROM doing? Is it a general iPXE main loader?

Thnx to all who replied.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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