* [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices
@ 2006-08-09 20:04 Jeremy Katz
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From: Jeremy Katz @ 2006-08-09 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
The bochs rombios has supported attempting to boot from more than one
device for a while. It seems like it would make sense to be able to
specify "-boot acd" as an argument for qemu to try booting first from
the floppy, then the cd and finally the hard drive to make things more
like a "real" machine. Does this seem reasonable?
If there's interest in this, I can clean up the patch I've started[1]
and send it on.
Jeremy
[1] The patch is against the pseudo-fork of qemu being used in Xen so I
need to do some rediffing as well as update the non-PC machine
initialization for the change
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* [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices
@ 2006-08-14 19:24 Jeremy Katz
2006-08-15 14:47 ` Fabrice Bellard
2006-08-15 17:45 ` K. Richard Pixley
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Katz @ 2006-08-14 19:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
The bochs rombios has supported attempting to boot from more than one
device for a while. It seems like it would make sense to be able to
specify "-boot acd" as an argument for qemu to try booting first from
the floppy, then the cd and finally the hard drive to make things more
like a "real" machine. Does this seem reasonable?
If there's interest in this, I can clean up the patch I've started[1]
and send it on.
Jeremy
[1] The patch is against the pseudo-fork of qemu being used in Xen so I
need to do some rediffing as well as update the non-PC machine
initializations for the change
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices
2006-08-14 19:24 Jeremy Katz
@ 2006-08-15 14:47 ` Fabrice Bellard
2006-08-15 17:45 ` K. Richard Pixley
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Fabrice Bellard @ 2006-08-15 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
It seems a good idea.
Fabrice.
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> The bochs rombios has supported attempting to boot from more than one
> device for a while. It seems like it would make sense to be able to
> specify "-boot acd" as an argument for qemu to try booting first from
> the floppy, then the cd and finally the hard drive to make things more
> like a "real" machine. Does this seem reasonable?
>
> If there's interest in this, I can clean up the patch I've started[1]
> and send it on.
>
> Jeremy
>
> [1] The patch is against the pseudo-fork of qemu being used in Xen so I
> need to do some rediffing as well as update the non-PC machine
> initializations for the change
>
>
>
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices
2006-08-14 19:24 Jeremy Katz
2006-08-15 14:47 ` Fabrice Bellard
@ 2006-08-15 17:45 ` K. Richard Pixley
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: K. Richard Pixley @ 2006-08-15 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
Jeremy Katz wrote:
>The bochs rombios has supported attempting to boot from more than one
>device for a while. It seems like it would make sense to be able to
>specify "-boot acd" as an argument for qemu to try booting first from
>the floppy, then the cd and finally the hard drive to make things more
>like a "real" machine. Does this seem reasonable?
>
It would make some things like installing guests, (which tend to want to
reboot from the hard disk they've just populated from
ether/cd/dvd/whatever), easier.
--rich
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