[SeaBIOS] RFC: Add a new boot parameter to set delay time before seabios retry to boot
Gleb Natapov
gleb at redhat.com
Thu Sep 6 08:21:57 CEST 2012
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 12:15:13PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> 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!
>
It is not cleat what "delay" mean. May be call it "reboot-timeout".
>
> [1] commit b8fcf46826e77c835da0ad8127a17895bb2e2fca
> Author: Kevin O'Connor <kevin at 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 at koconnor.net>
>
>
>
> --
> Amos.
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Gleb.
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