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

[Alexander Graf]

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.


Alex