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Re: [PATCH for-5.2 6/6] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Allow booting in case the firs
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: [PATCH for-5.2 6/6] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Allow booting in case the first virtio-blk disk is bad |
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Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:08:59 +0200 |
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On 05/08/2020 12.04, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:37:34 +0200
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
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>> If you try to boot with two virtio-blk disks (without bootindex), and
>> only the second one is bootable, the s390-ccw bios currently stops at
>> the first disk and does not continue booting from the second one. This
>> is annoying - and all other major QEMU firmwares succeed to boot from
>> the second disk in this case, so we should do the same in the s390-ccw
>> bios, too.
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> Does it make sense to do something like that for other device types as
> well?
It would be nice if we could do the same for virtio-scsi disks, but the
code is written in a way here that it will need much more thinking,
cleanups and time to get this done right...
Thomas