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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: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

  Hi,

> But to get rid of this problem typical BIOSes have an option whether
> they prefer to BOOT from SCSI (with an option ROM) or
> from the other devices. Then the option ROM typically boots from the
> first registered device.

qemu+seabios have bootindex to address that issue.  It was created
exactly because "boot from hard disk" isn't good enougth with multiple
disks in the system ...

cheers,
  gerd