On 30.10.2009, at 21:11, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Jan Kiszka wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:
Jan Kiszka wrote:
OK, thanks. Still one complaint: gPXE comes with an annoying boot
delay
even if you can boot from disk or have _explicitly_ specified
this. I'm
not familiar with it, but I bet there is some magic config switch
to
disable this...
Nothing seemed obvious to me. If anyone has ideas/patches I'm all
for it.
Found it: BANNER_TIMEOUT=0.
But it's not a tunable and I was hoping to not have to pull gpxe
into the tree and start adding patches.
Maybe we could wait until 0.13 and then introduce the FW cfg
interface to gpxe? I've already talked to some of the gpxe devs
about it and they seem pretty receptive. That would let us define
how long the timeout was.
The advantage of leaving in the timeout is that it lets a user
access the gPXE menu even if it's not set to be bootable. You see
this on bare metal all of the time with gPXE.
Most users don't want a boot menu when they don't boot from the
network, right?
So please disable the network boot option rom in the default config!
That timeout is horrible.
Alex
