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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot order problem and disable iPXE/gPXE
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To: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >boot option is deprecated in favor of bootindex. The later has much more
> >fine grained control of boot sequence. What if you have 5 SCSI
> >controllers? Even boot=c does not tell you much if you have more then
> >one disk.
> 
> Ok, then this is a documentation issue (command line, etc.):
> 1.) boot should be documented as deprecated with "use bootindex instead"
> 2.) bootindex should be documented at all
> 
Agree. Documentation is missing. bootindex is a device property (in QEMU
terms) and those are not documented in qemu help screen. Don't know
where is the proper place to add documentation for that.

--
			Gleb.