Blue Swirl wrote:
Ah wait a sec - according to the IEEE-1275 spec, the device chosen from boot-device is the first one that can be successfully opened, i.e. returns a valid ihandle with open-dev. Since the cdrom device is first in the list (and can always be successfully opened), it will never try the next option.
So what you need to do is swap the order over from "cdrom cdrom:d" to "cdrom:d cdrom" which should give the desired behaviour.
The problem which prevented NetBSD boot was actually open_ih() return value check, fixed in r839. R840 is only cosmetic.
Ah I see. Looks like the return value is different between open_io() and open_ih() :(
I could now change 'cdrom' to point to 'd' partition. One place for the change is obviously in openbios.c, but a change there doesn't affect the other variant aliases like 'sd(0,2,0)' which should also be adjusted. These are added in esp.c.
I think esp.c is probably the right place for the change to be made if you're simply wanting "cdrom" to become "sd(0,2,0):d".
There's also automatic partition selection code in sun-parts.c which is a bit ugly. With ':d' appended to 'cdrom', that may actually force the selected partition to be the first ('a') partition.
I think it's better to postpone these changes until multiple boot devices can be used in openbios.c.
I'm confused. Surely if the "cdrom" alias is fixed, then once it is changed then it doesn't matter anymore as you would specify -boot d on the qemu command line? Or do you mean there is something still not right with the multiple boot-device code?
ATB,
Mark.