[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [Resend][Seabios PATCH] don't boot from un-selected devices

[Ronen Hod]

On 12/19/2012 11:32 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 03:24:45PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
>> Current seabios will try to boot from selected devices first,
>> if they are all failed, seabios will also try to boot from
>> un-selected devices.
>>
>> For example:
>> @ qemu-kvm -boot order=n,menu=on ...
>>
>> Guest will boot from network first, if it's failed, guest will try to
>> boot from other un-selected devices (floppy, cdrom, disk) one by one.
>>
>> Sometimes, user don't want to boot from some devices. This patch changes
> And sometimes he want. The patch changes behaviour unconditionally. New
> behaviour should be user selectable. Something line -boot order=strict
> on qemu command line.

Another option would be to add a "terminator" symbol, say "T" (I couldn't find a good terminator), so that order=ndT, would mean strict "nd".

Ronen.

>
>> seabios to boot only from selected devices.
>>
>> If user choose first boot device from menu, then seabios will try all
>> the devices, even some of them are not selected.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong at redhat.com>
>> ---
>> Resend for CCing seabios maillist.
>> ---
>>   src/boot.c |   13 ++++++++-----
>>   1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/boot.c b/src/boot.c
>> index 3ca7960..ee810ac 100644
>> --- a/src/boot.c
>> +++ b/src/boot.c
>> @@ -424,6 +424,10 @@ interactive_bootmenu(void)
>>           maxmenu++;
>>           printf("%d. %s\n", maxmenu
>>                  , strtcpy(desc, pos->description, ARRAY_SIZE(desc)));
>> +        /* If user chooses first boot device from menu, we will treat
>> +	    all the devices as selected. */
>> +        if (pos->priority == DEFAULT_PRIO)
>> +            pos->priority = DEFAULT_PRIO - 1;
>>           pos = pos->next;
>>       }
>>   
>> @@ -490,7 +494,10 @@ boot_prep(void)
>>   
>>       // Map drives and populate BEV list
>>       struct bootentry_s *pos = BootList;
>> -    while (pos) {
>> +
>> +    /* The priority of un-selected device is not changed,
>> +       we only boot from user selected devices. */
>> +    while (pos && pos->priority != DEFAULT_PRIO) {
>>           switch (pos->type) {
>>           case IPL_TYPE_BCV:
>>               call_bcv(pos->vector.seg, pos->vector.offset);
>> @@ -513,10 +520,6 @@ boot_prep(void)
>>           }
>>           pos = pos->next;
>>       }
>> -
>> -    // If nothing added a floppy/hd boot - add it manually.
>> -    add_bev(IPL_TYPE_FLOPPY, 0);
>> -    add_bev(IPL_TYPE_HARDDISK, 0);
>>   }
>>   
>>   
>> -- 
>> 1.7.1
> --
> 			Gleb.
>