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[Xen-devel] PATCH: Add QEMU BIOS menu for choosing boot device

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Subject: [Xen-devel] PATCH: Add QEMU BIOS menu for choosing boot device
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:31:40 +0000
Cc: Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>
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The attached patch implements a mini BIOS menu for choosing a non-default
boot device. When a guest starts it'll display 

   'Press F10 to select boot device'

And wait 3 seconds, before continuing with the normal boot device. If they
press the F10 key, a menu is shown allowing a choice between floppy,
harddisk, cdrom and network (PXE).

I can't take credit for this originally - Jeremy Katz wrote it for KVM,
I merely re-diffed the patch to work against Xen's QEMU/BIOS code tree.
It has been tested in Fedora successfully against 3.1.x and 3.2.x

   Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
   CC: Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>


 rombios.c |  226 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 225 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


Regards,
Dan.
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