> > Also, I think the behavior was different with earlier versions.
> Yes, it was. The behaviour changed when bootindex was introduced. I think it
> should be easy to switch it back to what it was for -boot option, but -boot
> is/should be deprecated in favor of bootindex anyway.
> Implementing opt out from boot process for bootindex is doable but more
> involving.

But I found no way to disable booting a network device using bootindex - you 
can 
just set the order with that.

> > For example, if I set 'boot order=d' (boot from cdrom) and there is no 
> > cdrom in
> the drive slot. Then the VM will boot from the network an our windows
> installation server (RIS/WDS) will automatically trash all data on the VM 
> disk.
> That is quite dangerous.
> >
> One can argue that having such brokenly configured server in your network is
> dangerous anyway. What about physical computer that can be trashed before
> you even realize you had to disable network booting in the BIOS?

All hardware I know does not boot from network if I have disabled it - that's 
exactly the point!
I want to disable network boot, so how can I do that?

- Dietmar


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