Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot order problem and disable iPXE/gPXE

[Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Kevin O'Connor wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 09:35:55AM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> [...]
>> 5. Legacy option rom
>> 6. DVD/CD [ata1-0: QEMU DVD-ROM ATAPI-4 DVD/CD]
>> 7. iPXE (PCI 00:00.0)
>>
>> But there is still the iPXE ROM there (I think I didn't see iPXE
>> because it is last one displayed and boot screen is fast and will be
>> cleared afterwards). So something must be wrong. @Gerd: any ideas?
> [...]
>> Checking rom 0x000ce000 (sig aa55 size 17)
>> Searching bootorder for: /rom@genroms/vapic.bin
>> pmm_malloc zone=0x0ffefe30 handle=ffffffff size=20 align=10 ret=0x0ffe1420 (detail=0x0ffe1440)
>> Registering bootable: Legacy option rom (type:129 prio:101 data:ce000003)
>> Checking rom 0x000d0800 (sig aa55 size 5)
>> Searching bootorder for: /rom@genroms/pxe-pcnet.rom
>> pmm_malloc zone=0x0ffefe30 handle=ffffffff size=20 align=10 ret=0x0ffe13d0 (detail=0x0ffe13f0)
>> Registering bootable: iPXE (PCI 00:00.0) (type:128 prio:9999 data:d0800372)
>
> The iPXE rom is coming from the "genroms" fw_cfg interface instead of
> via the pci rom bar interface.  Also, the "legacy option rom" is from
> the vapic.bin file (comfing from the same fw_cfg interface) - this rom
> is something KVM sets up.

No NIC:
-net none
=> No iPXE ROM (correct).

but with the previously listed config no iPXE ROM should be there. Saw 
this is done through paravirtualization from Seabios/QEMU or KVM. So there
must be a bug with the empty romfile options with net or device (I guess) 
in QEMU/KVM.

The vapic.bin is ok.

BTW: Will you integrate the boot one liner?

Ciao,
Gerhard

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