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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:36:24 -0500
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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: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@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.