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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Add a new boot parameter to set delay time
 before seabios retry to boot
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To: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 12:15:13PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Seabios supports automatically reboot after X second delay on failed
> boot [1],
> I want to add a parameter for qemu, it's used put a boot parameter
> into romfile
> for seabios to set the delay time.
> 
> # qemu ... -boot order=n,menu=on,delay=5 ...
> 
> 
> Comments & suggestions ? Thanks!
> 
It is not cleat what "delay" mean. May be call it "reboot-timeout".

> 
> [1] commit b8fcf46826e77c835da0ad8127a17895bb2e2fca
> Author: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
> Date:   Sat May 12 22:12:22 2012 -0400
> 
>     Automatically reboot after 60 second delay on failed boot.
> 
>     If no valid boot devices are found, display the error for 60 seconds
>     (by default) and then reboot.  This enables a periodic retry in case
>     one of the boot devices is still coming online.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 			Amos.

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			Gleb.