Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Qemu boot device precedence over nvram boot-device setting

[Gleb Natapov]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 02:37:22PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 04.10.2012, at 14:35, Avik Sil wrote:
> 
> >>>>>> So you want to hack around the problem. If -boot is specified what
> >>>>>> device are you going to boot from?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> It is going to boot from the device specified in -boot as 
> >>>>> default_boot_order is set to 0 in that case.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Imagine you have 2 controllers:
> >>>> 
> >>>>   * vio
> >>>>   * virtio
> >>>> 
> >>>> and you specify -boot c. Which device are you going to boot from?
> >>> 
> >>> Currently, by default SLOF boots from the first disk it discovers in the 
> >>> device tree.
> >> 
> >> So you want to replace one broken scheme with another broken scheme? :)
> > 
> > Ha ha, actually we hit this issue in some different context with respect to 
> > nvram boot-device which I mentioned in [1]. The patch is a workaround for 
> > that issue only.
> 
> Seriously, just ignore -boot for now. It'd be a lot more useful to get 
> bootindex working.
> 
+1

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                        Gleb.