From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCzqy-0004vW-Ep for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:06:32 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCzqx-0004uh-P7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:06:31 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39748 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCzqx-0004ua-Iy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:06:31 -0500 Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.152]:31781) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCzqw-0006CB-P8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:06:31 -0500 Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so1704346ywa.82 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:06:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:06:28 +0100 From: Gildas Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support In-Reply-To: <49492C51.7090101@siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1229440810-12394-1-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> <49480F6D.2010302@codemonkey.ws> <20081217110319.GD13455@redhat.com> <200812171318.58650.paul@codesourcery.com> <49490282.3080800@siemens.com> <4949116F.6090604@redhat.com> <49491293.9070501@siemens.com> <49491519.4080907@suse.de> <20081217152603.GV13455@redhat.com> <49492C51.7090101@siemens.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> One other alternative to added a brand new arg is to just allow an extra >> meta-character in -boot arg to indicate that it should prompt or not >> >> -boot d (use cdrom) >> >> vs >> >> -boot d+ (default cdrom, prompt to allow override) >> >> but perhaps that's a bit obtuse >> > > -boot d,ask would make more sense to me (as it is more verbose). I think "ask" or even "m" for menu is easier to understand than a "+" With this option, there would be 4 different cases at boot time: no "-boot" option: show boot menu -boot ask or -boot m: show boot menu -boot d: use cdrom, no boot menu -boot d,ask or -boot m: default cdrom, prompt to allow override I would also like to remind you the boot_set option in the monitor which allow one to change the values from the -boot parameter at run time. Another alternative might just be to lower the wait time to 1 or 2s... Gildas