On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:56:52AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/05/2010 10:34 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:28:57AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >>>The option rom stuff has a number of short comings. Because we hijack > >>>int19, extboot doesn't get to run. That means that if you use -kernel to > >>>load a grub (the Ubuntu guys for their own absurd reasons) then grub > >>>does not see extboot backed disks. The solution for them is the same, > >>>generate a proper disk and boot from that disk. > >>Oh, having extboot + linuxboot + multiboot register a BEV (correct > >>acronym?) entry instead of hijacking int19 would fix that too. > >>Additional bonus will be that they are selectable in the boot menu. > >> > >Good idea except that we are not good at communicating to seabios where > >do we want to boot from by default. > > We have the firmware configuration interface for that, if we can > tolerate its speed. > To pass default boot device, sure :) The question is what to pass so that seabios will be able to unambiguously determine what device to boot from. -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
