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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:42:10 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> The order of hard drives is determined by the BCV list.  There is only
> one entry in the IPL table for booting from a hard drive - selecting
> "-boot c" prioritizes this IPL - hard drive booting always boots from
> the "C" drive.  It's possible to tell SeaBIOS to map the C drive to
> something other than the first item on the BCV list, but that
> functionality is currently only available via the boot menu.
>   

This is the bit that confused me.  Does an IPL entry for the hard disk 
result in each BCV device being booted in order of BCV priority or is 
there a means to have multiple IPL entries?  IOW, how would we support a 
boot order of first hard disk, second hard disk, then CD-ROM?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori