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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from
	virtio disks
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:49:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/10/2010 06:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>Isn't this problem unrelated to this patch?  I mean if I start qemu with
> >>two ide devices can I specify from qemu command line which one I want to
> >>boot from?
> >
> >That's sort of what I'm asking.  If you compare this approach to
> >extboot, extboot provided a capability to select a disk.  I think
> >it can be argued though that this isn't a necessary feature to
> >carry over and I'm looking for additional opinions on that.
> 
> I'd say it's a necessary feature, but not one to carry over from the
> extboot implementation.  We have the seabios boot menu (how to reach
> it?), we need to store the nvram persistently,  and we need to
> extend the selection menu to qemu, but that's unrelated to this
> patch.
> 
To reach seabios boot menu run qemu with "-boot menu=on" option and press
f12 when prompted.

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			Gleb.