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authorAmos Kong <akong@redhat.com>2013-03-19 14:23:27 +0800
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2013-03-19 08:00:10 -0500
commitc8a6ae8bb95477d5ac11d9b491b603b2d190a96e (patch)
tree5c648dc30f4ee7c40e2c1eacd86c33200acd1d6a /qemu-options.hx
parent8510d91ebad522685bc1a29e7bbc1f5050af0d2c (diff)
downloadqemu-c8a6ae8bb95477d5ac11d9b491b603b2d190a96e.tar.gz
add a boot option to do strict boot
Seabios already added a new device type to halt booting. Qemu can add "HALT" at the end of bootindex string, then seabios will halt booting after trying to boot from all selected devices. This patch added a new boot option to configure if boot from un-selected devices. This option only effects when boot priority is changed by bootindex options, the old style(-boot order=..) will still try to boot from un-selected devices. v2: add HALT entry in get_boot_devices_list() v3: rebase to latest qemu upstream Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com> Message-id: 1363674207-31496-1-git-send-email-akong@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
-rw-r--r--qemu-options.hx8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 30fb85d619..06dd565076 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -161,14 +161,14 @@ ETEXI
DEF("boot", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_boot,
"-boot [order=drives][,once=drives][,menu=on|off]\n"
- " [,splash=sp_name][,splash-time=sp_time][,reboot-timeout=rb_time]\n"
+ " [,splash=sp_name][,splash-time=sp_time][,reboot-timeout=rb_time][,strict=on|off]\n"
" 'drives': floppy (a), hard disk (c), CD-ROM (d), network (n)\n"
" 'sp_name': the file's name that would be passed to bios as logo picture, if menu=on\n"
" 'sp_time': the period that splash picture last if menu=on, unit is ms\n"
" 'rb_timeout': the timeout before guest reboot when boot failed, unit is ms\n",
QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
STEXI
-@item -boot [order=@var{drives}][,once=@var{drives}][,menu=on|off][,splash=@var{sp_name}][,splash-time=@var{sp_time}][,reboot-timeout=@var{rb_timeout}]
+@item -boot [order=@var{drives}][,once=@var{drives}][,menu=on|off][,splash=@var{sp_name}][,splash-time=@var{sp_time}][,reboot-timeout=@var{rb_timeout}][,strict=on|off]
@findex -boot
Specify boot order @var{drives} as a string of drive letters. Valid
drive letters depend on the target achitecture. The x86 PC uses: a, b
@@ -192,6 +192,10 @@ when boot failed, then reboot. If @var{rb_timeout} is '-1', guest will not
reboot, qemu passes '-1' to bios by default. Currently Seabios for X86
system support it.
+Do strict boot via @option{strict=on} as far as firmware/BIOS
+supports it. This only effects when boot priority is changed by
+bootindex options. The default is non-strict boot.
+
@example
# try to boot from network first, then from hard disk
qemu-system-i386 -boot order=nc