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Re: [Xen-devel] HVMAssist BIOS boot device problem

To: Stephen Quintero <stephen@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] HVMAssist BIOS boot device problem
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:00:44 +0100
Cc: Apoorva Kulkarni <Apoorva@xxxxxxxxxx>, Minh Quach <minh@xxxxxxxxx>, Eric Tessler <eric@xxxxxxxxx>
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On 8/7/08 14:52, "Stephen Quintero" <stephen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> See example B in my original post where hda|hdb|hdc all contain active
> partitions but the guest boots from hdc.

I checked an example where hda was not bootable yet hdd was. In that case
the BIOS wanted to boot from hda, and failed, and that was that. I'm afraid
that, plus reading the BIOS code, was as far as I went in trying to repro
this oddness.

 -- Keir



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