From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Add a new boot parameter to set delay time before seabios retry to boot
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:36:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq5zjmsn.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50482351.6050302@redhat.com>
Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com> writes:
> 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!
Why use a file and not just a key/value?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
>
> [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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-06 4:15 [Qemu-devel] RFC: Add a new boot parameter to set delay time before seabios retry to boot Amos Kong
2012-09-06 6:21 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-09-06 12:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add a boot parameter to set reboot timeout Amos Kong
2012-09-06 12:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-09-07 2:41 ` Amos Kong
2012-09-06 13:36 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2012-09-06 21:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] RFC: Add a new boot parameter to set delay time before seabios retry to boot Steve Goodrich
2012-09-07 1:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin O'Connor
2012-09-07 3:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] add a boot parameter to set reboot timeout Amos Kong
2012-09-20 3:15 ` Amos Kong
2012-09-20 6:18 ` Gleb Natapov
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