On 27/09/2024 02.51, jro...@linux.ibm.com wrote:
From: Jared Rossi <jro...@linux.ibm.com>
Update docs to show that s390x PC BIOS can support more than one boot device.
Signed-off-by: Jared Rossi <jro...@linux.ibm.com>
---
docs/system/bootindex.rst | 7 ++++---
docs/system/s390x/bootdevices.rst | 9 ++++++---
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/system/bootindex.rst b/docs/system/bootindex.rst
index 8b057f812f..142ae1a0a2 100644
--- a/docs/system/bootindex.rst
+++ b/docs/system/bootindex.rst
@@ -49,10 +49,11 @@ Limitations
-----------
Some firmware has limitations on which devices can be considered for
-booting. For instance, the PC BIOS boot specification allows only one
-disk to be bootable. If boot from disk fails for some reason, the BIOS
+booting. For instance, the x86 PC BIOS boot specification allows only one
+disk to be bootable. If boot from disk fails for some reason, the x86 BIOS
won't retry booting from other disk. It can still try to boot from
-floppy or net, though.
+floppy or net, though. In the case of s390x PC BIOS, the BIOS will try up to
+8 total devices, any number of which may be disks.
I'd just say "s390x BIOS" - or "s390x firmware", but using the term "PC"
with s390x sounds wrong to me ;-)
Thomas
