>On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Maurits van de Lande 
><[email protected]> wrote:

>> I would prefer to automatically reboot the VM (or retry the boot 
>> devices) when no bootable device is found, then when the iSCSI storage 
>> is available again the VM can boot normally.
>>
>> (when I manually sent CTRL+ALT+DEL to the VM the system booted normally
>> again)


>It would be an interesting option. Sometimes, for hardware, you really want it 
>to wait with the error message on the screen for a while so you can tell what 
>happened. At the same time, there's nothing more annoying than having it wait 
>forever when you know the hardware finally is ready for a boot ... Perhaps it 
>would be possible to set a reasonable optional timeout and then have it reboot 
>or, better, just redo the hardware scan and try again.

>ron

A reasonable optional timeout and just redo the hardware scan and try again 
sounds perfect. On a HP Proliant server the system is rebooted after a timeout 
when no boot device is detected. I don't know which option is better. 

When a new bios is available I'll be happy to test it!

Maurits



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