Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] boot a linux kernel from non-ide device

[Anthony Liguori]

Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> Since it's now possible to use the -drive option, the test for something
> in the index 0 of the IDE bus is too restrictive.
>
> A better idea, IMHO, is to check if the user specified any bootable device,
> and only if not, fallback to the default, compatible behaviour of checking
> hda regardless of the presence of a boot=on arg.
>   

extboot isn't in upstream QEMU yet so this patch won't apply.

Regards,

Anthony LIguori