Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Regression due to "Fall back to network boot..."

[Alexander Graf]

On 30.10.2009, at 21:11, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> > > Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > >
> > > > OK, thanks. Still one complaint: gPXE comes with an annoying boot  
> > > > delay
> > > > even if you can boot from disk or have _explicitly_ specified  
> > > > this. I'm
> > > > not familiar with it, but I bet there is some magic config switch  
> > > > to
> > > > disable this...
> > > Nothing seemed obvious to me.  If anyone has ideas/patches I'm all  
> > > for it.
> >
> > Found it: BANNER_TIMEOUT=0.
>
> But it's not a tunable and I was hoping to not have to pull gpxe  
> into the tree and start adding patches.
>
> Maybe we could wait until 0.13 and then introduce the FW cfg  
> interface to gpxe?  I've already talked to some of the gpxe devs  
> about it and they seem pretty receptive.  That would let us define  
> how long the timeout was.
>
> The advantage of leaving in the timeout is that it lets a user  
> access the gPXE menu even if it's not set to be bootable.  You see  
> this on bare metal all of the time with gPXE.

Most users don't want a boot menu when they don't boot from the  
network, right?

So please disable the network boot option rom in the default config!  
That timeout is horrible.


Alex