On 04.10.2012, at 14:35, Avik Sil wrote: >>>>>> So you want to hack around the problem. If -boot is specified what >>>>>> device are you going to boot from? >>>>> >>>>> It is going to boot from the device specified in -boot as >>>>> default_boot_order is set to 0 in that case. >>>> >>>> Imagine you have 2 controllers: >>>> >>>> * vio >>>> * virtio >>>> >>>> and you specify -boot c. Which device are you going to boot from? >>> >>> Currently, by default SLOF boots from the first disk it discovers in the >>> device tree. >> >> So you want to replace one broken scheme with another broken scheme? :) > > Ha ha, actually we hit this issue in some different context with respect to > nvram boot-device which I mentioned in [1]. The patch is a workaround for > that issue only.
Seriously, just ignore -boot for now. It'd be a lot more useful to get bootindex working. Alex
