RE: network boot always enabled with 0.15.0

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> No, this boot= option is deprecated too. AFAIK boot=off does (and always
> did) nothing.  boot=on tells qemu to boot from the disk using extboot option
> rom. This was needed to boot from virtio disks. Now SeaBIOS can boot from
> virtio disk natively, so extboot no longer needed. But due to the ways BIOS boot
> specification is written only one disk can be bootable in the system, so if one
> disk has bootindex specified other disks will not participate in the boot even if
> the disk with bootindex specified is not bootable.

And how does 'boot order=" relates to bootindex? Is 'order=' also depreciated? 

(docs/bootindex.txt does not mention that.)

- Dietmar

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