On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:57:04PM +0000, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > No, this boot= option is deprecated too. AFAIK boot=off does (and always
> > did) nothing. boot=on tells qemu to boot from the disk using extboot option
> > rom. This was needed to boot from virtio disks. Now SeaBIOS can boot from
> > virtio disk natively, so extboot no longer needed. But due to the ways BIOS
> > boot
> > specification is written only one disk can be bootable in the system, so if
> > one
> > disk has bootindex specified other disks will not participate in the boot
> > even if
> > the disk with bootindex specified is not bootable.
>
> Thanks for that info.
>
> Another possibility to disable network boot would be to avoid loading
> the pxe-XXX.rom network boot ROMs. Or is that a bad idea?
>
Ah yeah. Don't see anything bad if you do not what to boot from net.
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