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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:16:53 +0100
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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] iPXE/Etherboot prompts twice for booting?
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To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Alex Williamson
<alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 10:45 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>> > I'm playing with iPXE ROM images again, and see
>> > iPXE prompts two times during bootup. =A0Once like
>> > this: "Press Ctrl-B to configure", at early stage,
>> > even if -boot n is not selected. =A0And second time
>> > when it actually tries to boot, like "Press Ctrl-B
>> > for the command line".
>> >
>> > The same behavor happens with old Etherboot, with
>> > the exception that during init stage it tries to
>> > boot too but fails.
>> >
>> > Any idea how to get rid of that?
>>
>> IIRC you need to #define BANNER_TIMEOUT 0 in src/config/general.h.
>
> I think src/local/config/general.h is the preferred location, which is
> what the script in my tree does and includes pre-built ipxe images:

Yeah, using the top-level config is just my bad habit.  The point of
local/ is to prevent conflicts if you update the code and to make git
ignore your local changes.

Stefan