Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/2] Rework -boot option

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/27/2009 11:11 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This patch changes the boot command line option to the canonical format
>
>   -boot [order=]drives[,interactive=on|off]
>
> where 'drives' is using the same format as the old -boot. The format
> switch allows to add the 'interactive' option and use the existing
> infrastructure to parse it. However, the old format is still understood
> and will be processed at least for a transition time.
>
> The state of 'interactive' is transfered to the firmware via the new
> configuration value FW_CFG_BOOT_INTERACTIVE.
>    

Perhaps interactive (and the boot order itself) should be forgotten 
after a successful boot?  A typical use case is to boot an installer off 
the cdrom; the next boot ought to try the hard disk.  But perhaps other 
use cases don't want that.

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