From: "K. Richard Pixley" <rich.pixley@palmsource.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:45:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E20835.9080503@palmsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155583440.22107.30.camel@aglarond.local>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 17:45 UTC|newest]
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2006-08-14 19:24 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Allow trying to boot from multiple devices Jeremy Katz
2006-08-15 14:47 ` Fabrice Bellard
2006-08-15 17:45 ` K. Richard Pixley [this message]
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2006-08-09 20:04 Jeremy Katz
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