I'm just guessing, but perhaps because a file can be changed without rebuilding SeaBIOS.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Liguori" aliguori@us.ibm.com To: "Amos Kong" akong@redhat.com Cc: seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 7:36:24 AM Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] RFC: Add a new boot parameter to set delay time before seabios retry to boot
Amos Kong akong@redhat.com writes:
Hi all,
Seabios supports automatically reboot after X second delay on failed boot [1], I want to add a parameter for qemu, it's used put a boot parameter into romfile for seabios to set the delay time.
# qemu ... -boot order=n,menu=on,delay=5 ...
Comments & suggestions ? Thanks!
Why use a file and not just a key/value?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
[1] commit b8fcf46826e77c835da0ad8127a17895bb2e2fca Author: Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net Date: Sat May 12 22:12:22 2012 -0400
Automatically reboot after 60 second delay on failed boot. If no valid boot devices are found, display the error for 60 seconds (by default) and then reboot. This enables a periodic retry in case one of the boot devices is still coming online. Signed-off-by: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>-- Amos.
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